LONG LIVE(!)
(Publication
Date:27 April 2007)
Goodbye to days without electricity…
Hello ADSL…
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First of all, I would like to welcome Turkey’s Minister of Transport Binali Yıldırım to our country.
How fortunate we are that a problem we have suffered from for a very long time is being resolved.
We are saying goodbye to days without electricity.
I think we will no longer have to live through days without electricity.
May this fine step bring happiness and good fortune…
And of course, the issue of ADSL is also very important!
How fortunate we are that another problem we have suffered from for a very long time is being resolved.
We are saying goodbye to the days of dial-up connections.
May the internet of our age, ADSL, bring good fortune to us all…
Long live our government!
Yes, what I wrote just now was only written for the sake of writing and to draw the attention of the people concerned to this article…
If I have managed that, let me get my messages across.
Well, fine, the additional 70-megawatt electricity unit will be very useful to us; however, as far as I know, the age of the power lines is also a major factor in outages. In our country, a gust of wind is enough to cause a power cut. We would like to know what kinds of measures are being taken on this issue.
And ADSL!
The other day, when I went somewhere,
someone asked me a question about this.
“You follow this stuff, so how much
are we going to pay for ADSL?”
In response, I told them the figures that had been announced. (As you may recall, according to the announced figures, the Department—Telecommunications Department—would charge a one-time ADSL installation fee of 50 YTL, while ADSL subscribers would pay the Department a monthly ADSL usage fee of 30 YTL; the fees charged by service providers would be set by the providers themselves and would depend on the speed.)
It is impossible for me to write here
the questioner’s response!
But let me just
say this: there is a serious level of discontent in society (because of the pricing policy)!
In my 18 April article,
I wrote about this issue and asked the questions I was waiting to have answered.
Of course, no answers were given
to my questions!
I’m thinking of repeating the same
questions in this article; but this time I’m not expecting answers.
What I hope is that those responsible will ask themselves these questions!
ADSL is the internet of the modern
world, so why did we connect to the internet using outdated methods for years? Is this what we, the people of the TRNC (KKTC), deserve?
Why is ADSL, which arrived so late,
so expensive? While leaders around the world try to bring their people’s internet speeds as high as possible, at the most affordable prices, why are we making “the internet of the modern world,” which arrived so late, cost so much? Does the state have commercial interests?
Shouldn’t those responsible make it up to the people of the TRNC, who have spent years trying to connect to the internet using outdated methods? Couldn’t they make amends by lowering prices?
I hope this pricing
policy does not continue, and that we too—as people who have been left behind for years—can use the internet of the modern world.
See you Monday… Be respectful in traffic!
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