The Etisalat eLife was a requirement where I lived in a new development in Raha Beach - Abu Dhabi. You were not allowed to install your own dishes anywhere.
BUT eLife (or eVision or whatever they called it) is a fibre-based system. If your home aint got a fibre optic cable you cannot use it. End of story.
If - like my pad - it was all pre-wired (pre-fibred?) by the developer, the eLife system was fine but very expensive for any decent package of channels.
Of course you also got wireless internet access and a phone landline thrown in. But you had to buy your own phone hand set for the land line. I mean Etisalat are only a phone company - it would be too simple for them to give you one.
And where can you buy a phone with an RJ11 connector on the end of the wire? I gave up - who needs a land line these days anyway...