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Telephone charges and the media

When I received my monthly telephone bill of Rs 3500, I was shocked beyond belief. My regular bill was has been for a long time Rs 750 and if I made several international calls I naturally expected to be billed more. Around Rs 1500 which was the maximum. Dial-up for the Internet was treating as one call and there was no multi-metering charges now there are. I wrote to several newspapers and even local TV channels about this increase in the land line telephone charges. It appears as though the government wants to destroy PTCL.
The local media was completely indifferent about this. Anyway regarding the charges, for the same amount of money I could buy a new mobile phone or buy a used full-featured mobile phone. Why should I rely on the only land line telephone company in the country Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL). Why should PTCL have this blind authority to charge as it pleases and why does the government's Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) let it happen? So many services mobile phone companies could provide, have been around abroad for several years, but have not been introduced here, t either because the companies here do not have the required technical skill, most likely they were prevented by the PTA. The PTA should be headed by people who know what is happening all over the world. Some mobile phone companies give a number which can be used to make international calls for free, that service does not exist here. Mobile phones come with a call charges feature, so that a customer can know how much it cost him to make a call. I asked the mobile service I am presently subscriber of as to why this feature does not work - the answer I got was that the company's management does not allow it. In what way does it hurt the management of the company to provide an additional service? Only recently when a Chinese mobile phone company came certain international standards and like providing free calls to 11 people, the other mobile service companies started doing the same but reluctantly. This could have been done years ago, but the PTA did not allow because it was afraid it would lose revenue.
There is a tendency in the government to knowingly do absolutely stupid and insane thing. There are two mottos "If something can be done, why let be be done, create as many hurdles so that it becomes impossible to be done" the other is "Convenience is a crime"
There should be an end to PTCL's criminal monopoly as well as that of KESC's monopoly over Karachi. WAPDA should cease to existed. Every province should have its own Ministry of Water and Power Development with no Federal Government involvement.
Why does our government rely entirely on indirect taxes, why does not have the guts impose income tax, property tax and wealth tax on the feudal lords and tribal chiefs?

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