Thursday, January 8, 2009

Free Calls to the Gaza Strip

Jakarta --
Plans eliminate a phone call to the Gaza. However, the bid appears to be interesting is futile considering the many telecommunications facilities damaged due to heavy Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

detikINET quotation from AustralianIT, on Wednesday (7/1/2009), the largest operator Telstra as Australia offers free phone calls during the week to areas affected by war in electrical current.

This bid is valid until this day since January 15 for the upcoming call with the area code 0011-970-8.

"Telstra customers in Australia can call relatives in the area of Gaza free of charge," said Sol Trujillo, Telstra chief executive officer.

However, Telstra made a bid is considered not to bring too much benefit, given the many telecommunications facilities in the conflict area were damaged.

Paltel Group, the main phone company has warned the Palestinians that Gaza can be lost from the outside world as a result of attacks from land and air.

According to Paltel, about 90 percent of mobile phone services have been paralyzed Gaza, and a number of home phone has been damaged.

In addition to damaged telecommunications facilities, also lost some of Paltel servants who have died as a result of attacks.

"Although a lot of obstruction, we try to keep as closely as possible to provide services in the Gaza path, even with a minimal capacity," Paltel demolished.

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