As can be expected from a fanatical regime, which is bent on denying everyone here the least amount of freedom - the Internet like all other media is very closely monitored, filtered and websites which people use to visit on a regular basis are now are blocked - a message called 'time out error 110', which is a way of saying 'don't ever visit this website again'. Instead of lowering charges and providing good services, the state owned telephone company PTCL is making it increasingly impossible to surf the Internet.
In a population of 150 million people only 6 per cent people use the Internet - whereas in more properous countries up to 40 per cent of the entire population uses the Internet. Internet access is doomed, because the network of telephone lines does not exist, besides the majority of the people do not know how to use computers leave alone surf the Internet.
The use of computers and the surfing of the Internet is a previlege not something which everyone is entitled to. The state owned telephone company over-charges, but its services are downright pathetic. Its takes more than a month or several years to get a telephone connection - however if you have power and influence - you can have telephone connection in a matter of minutes along with a telephone set. But not everyone here is that lucky they have to wait - there have been cases in which a person has died and finally the state owned telephone company provides the connection. It is nothing but an insane situation.
For a country of 150 million people, there should be 600 million telephone connections - so that people can have three telephones, one permanently for the Internet others for every member of the family. But these are pipedreams and fantasies. Our villages and towns are not connected, for every village there only one or two telephones. Instead of spending up to Rs 100 million on filtering the Internet, this money could have been spent on setting up a huge nationwide telephone network so that everyone in the country could have a phone.
The state-owned telephone company and its supervising setup the PTA (don't ask what those acronyms mean) also sets the rates and invents all kinds of rules and regulations. such as to what the existing several mobile phone service connection providers should charge, many potential mobile phone connection service providers ran away instead of investing, here - when the saw all the madcap rules and regulations which the PTA and PTCL had contrived.
PTCL has its own mobile phone company and is greedy as can be - no service and but charge regardless. What is even more bizarre is that some people do not have a telephone connection but they are sent telephone bills anyway - there is something rotten in the state of telecommunication.
PTA and PTCL are nothing but official parasites, they have nothing to do but steal money without giving anything in return. Coming back to the issue of filtering the Internet - well 6 per cent of the entire population should consider themselves very lucky that they have telephone connection at all and they can use the Internet. But they cannot use the Internet in the way they want to. They have to use the Internet the way PTA and PTCL decides how it should be, it as if they are looking over shoulder examining everything that we are doing - which is a violation of our privacy. Sick minded people run these organisations - only when there is genuine democracy will the existing oppression end, presently our voices will remain unheard.
In a population of 150 million people only 6 per cent people use the Internet - whereas in more properous countries up to 40 per cent of the entire population uses the Internet. Internet access is doomed, because the network of telephone lines does not exist, besides the majority of the people do not know how to use computers leave alone surf the Internet.
The use of computers and the surfing of the Internet is a previlege not something which everyone is entitled to. The state owned telephone company over-charges, but its services are downright pathetic. Its takes more than a month or several years to get a telephone connection - however if you have power and influence - you can have telephone connection in a matter of minutes along with a telephone set. But not everyone here is that lucky they have to wait - there have been cases in which a person has died and finally the state owned telephone company provides the connection. It is nothing but an insane situation.
For a country of 150 million people, there should be 600 million telephone connections - so that people can have three telephones, one permanently for the Internet others for every member of the family. But these are pipedreams and fantasies. Our villages and towns are not connected, for every village there only one or two telephones. Instead of spending up to Rs 100 million on filtering the Internet, this money could have been spent on setting up a huge nationwide telephone network so that everyone in the country could have a phone.
The state-owned telephone company and its supervising setup the PTA (don't ask what those acronyms mean) also sets the rates and invents all kinds of rules and regulations. such as to what the existing several mobile phone service connection providers should charge, many potential mobile phone connection service providers ran away instead of investing, here - when the saw all the madcap rules and regulations which the PTA and PTCL had contrived.
PTCL has its own mobile phone company and is greedy as can be - no service and but charge regardless. What is even more bizarre is that some people do not have a telephone connection but they are sent telephone bills anyway - there is something rotten in the state of telecommunication.
PTA and PTCL are nothing but official parasites, they have nothing to do but steal money without giving anything in return. Coming back to the issue of filtering the Internet - well 6 per cent of the entire population should consider themselves very lucky that they have telephone connection at all and they can use the Internet. But they cannot use the Internet in the way they want to. They have to use the Internet the way PTA and PTCL decides how it should be, it as if they are looking over shoulder examining everything that we are doing - which is a violation of our privacy. Sick minded people run these organisations - only when there is genuine democracy will the existing oppression end, presently our voices will remain unheard.
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