For people that might be useful.
From midnight tonight (Tuesday, 7 February) we’ll be providing free calls to Türkiye and Syria. That way, you can get the information you need and have one less thing to worry about.
We're making calls – both from pre-paid and post-paid mobiles as well as home phones – to Türkiye or Syria from Telstra home phones and mobiles until 28 Feb
Update: Extended until the end of March.
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They will save you 5 cents per minute !!!
Tëlsträ cares about Sūrīyah.
It is not sweden dude.
Jv are you trying to stir the pot? Not the time or the best place to discuss about that.
Too soon? It has been 570 years now. I think we are all OK that the Roman Empire will not be restored.
Phones wasn't invented back then
You need to call a help line. Seriously.
The help lines should be left open for people with relatives in the area.
Don't call if you don't need too…
No funny. At all. JV.
Clearly you don't have any family or friends there and don't have ANY empathy.
Do you call melbourne naarm?
Is there a song about it?
The song suggests that it is istanbul not constantinople.
Don’t add congestion to their networks. Supposedly has been a real concern, so maybe not a great time to catch up with people
Tell that to Telstra…
Congestion is literally all this will do…
Normal Telstra rate is 5 cents per minute to a Turkish landline, so it's not really going to save anyone any money.
What it will do is encourage people to make calls there that they otherwise wouldn't, including to Turkish cities a thousand km away totally unaffected.
Once again, this is just a marketing publicity stunt. It is not a bargain.
Best comment in this thread, and it’s in the dark. Censorship is alive and well…
Idk about Turkey, but in Syria the electricity is not available most of the time unfortunately.
Frequent load shedding in parts of Turkey also
Why not from pay(free) phones?
Because the Telstra Marketing Department didn't think they should help people who aren't Telstra customers.
if you really concen about friends and family, money won't matter.
If you rely on phone booths then you probably don't have a homophone or mobile.
🤨
Bet by tomorrow, other telcos will follow and posts of the same deal will be up…
classic telstra. yeh tomorrow be sweet
Hey everyone. I would really appreciate if we leave politics out of the comments. This post is for people that want to contact their loved ones in Turkey and Syria in these hard and difficult times for them. ☮️✌️
This post is for people that want to contact their loved ones in Turkey and Syria
and how is this 'deal' going to help?
If they are with Telstra they can call for free. Obviously deal it's on the title.
they can call for free.
and save 5 cents per minute.
encourages people to talk forever and congest the damage telecommunications there…
why don't they limit the free calls to a few minutes, rather than add to the problems.
You can call or email Telstra and let them know about your concerns.
They don't care, they only do this for the free publicity it gets them and one of the few times people aren't complaining about them in the media.
@jv: You could probably be right on that one. Companies will always use disaster situations or any events of some sort to benefit out of it. That's why they have a marketing team, to make them look good.
Good luck with that.
While most OzB's are about getting things are cheap as possible. There are those that are just cheap in character.
What does that have to do with phone calls to Turkey & Syria?
Im on Boost 300 and tried to call my friend who lives in the affected region in Turkey. However, the call didn't go through. Perhaps it will work tomorrow?
P.s : I called them using Skype and they're safe. Cok sukkur =)
It's really sad what has happened there…
It is…
Will not be surprised if the death toll exceeds 10,000 +
It's already 3,000
I'm surprised they aren't blaming it on climate change, or are they?
So what happened there?
Hopefully the EU can help rebuild with more earthquake proof construction.
Current death toll has now exceeded 7,000….
Sad!? It is almost impossible to use a adjective without understating the scale of the disaster.
Does it not go without saying how horrified we are? What is sad is that we feel the need to signal our feelings, as if they were in doubt.
We also feel impotent, wishing there was more we could do. Even people much closer can do little at this stage, unless they posses specialised skills or equipment.
Expressing displeasure at Telstra for using this tragedy for very public virtual signalling is not going to make anything worse.
Why shame on OP? OP is just doing the job of finding deals
WhatsApp or some other internet call that's always free
Nothing is free in life. You’ve to factor in the cost of your phone and the internet bills ;)
Hmmm
Why does Big media Google, Facebook, News etc get fat on sufferings of others.
Why do people need to call Turkey Syria, to chat internet or landline when everyone is busy rescuing others. Maybe they should increase prices not make it free.
Why do people eat frosted flakes when they are dying of diabetes.
Fires burn, Fires Warm
So easy to look at negative rather than the positive
Ying and Yang
According to ChatGPT:
Both "Turkey" and "Türkiye" refer to the same country, the Republic of Turkey. "Turkey" is the English name for the country, while "Türkiye" is its name in Turkish.
ChatGPT is no use for recent events.
Erdoğan, everyone's favourite middle-eastern theocrat, has requested that foreigners use the Turkish spelling of their country's name.
Most people are saying no thanks, you don't get to dictate the English language. And we know our spelling sucks.
But a few organisations, such as "our" ABC are going along with the dictator's demands.
Will they say Sūrīyah for Syria? (Or use Arabic alphabet if you want to be really virtuous.) Deutschland for Germany?
But we did switch to Myanmar for Burma, then back again. Which is it now? I can't keep up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Myanmar
Erdoğan, everyone's favourite middle-eastern theocrat, has requested that foreigners use the Turkish spelling of their country's name.
Which is a good reason not to…
The Turks have been saying they will change this for decades.
Erdogan finally push the paperwork for it to happen so its not just because of him that its changed.
@zemphism: I'll continue to use the English name in an English conversation…
Imagine if China demanded we start naming their cities using Chinese characters….
Yet we are ok to use the Netherlands instead of Holland as the Dutch requested? or
Czech Republic changed to Czechia
Democratic Kampuchea to the Kingdom of Cambodia?
Holland is a part of the Netherlands. Not a request. Like confusing England with the UK. Czech republic is new, and a mouthful, but I don't think "czechia" has caught on well yet either. Time will tell.
Most people, media, etc are sticking with Turkey so far.
It's a great country to visit. Especially the former capital, Constantinople.
Netherlands instead of Holland
These all use characters from the English alphabet the we know and understand…
Democratic Kampuchea to the Kingdom of Cambodia?
I went on a holiday to Siam a few months ago…
I heard this pronunciation on ABC radio during the night last week and was all confused and then I heard it on ABC TV this morning and I ended up here after a google search as to why. Thanks for the info, the ABC does my head in at times.
I have Telstra home bundled into my internet. Never used the home phone, but at $4.50 per minute this is a good deal.
Isn't Syria where the ISIS brides were repatriated from recently?
The civil war is still going on there. Aleppo, which suffered horribly in the war, has been hard hit again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aleppo_(2012%E2%80%932016)
Well done Telstra!
you left off the
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For people that might be useful
Rules me out :(
Man JV really hates Türkiye huh.
But loves Turkey. Go figure!
Especially Pamukkale… Or has that changed it's name too?
I also enjoyed my visit to Smyrna.
Beautiful city with friendly people…
The kebabs were good too.
yarım ekmek döner - mmmmmm ….
( a kebab - despite what google translate might say )
I just noticed I'm wearing a Turkish hat :-)
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