From the days we walked away from devotion commitment to hunting When we return these days, we focus on whatever is affordable and long-term. Internet and telephone packages are often the subject of this. Because if there is no obligation, every month rising wages We are used to seeing it.

According to Sabah news, these fees are: BTKs The ceiling it will announce will increase depending on the price and will rise on April 1 next. The news in question also indicates that the operators are in principle quite profitable. This is more than what is said even before the increase There has been an increase in wages of 150 percent compared to last year.

There is a price ceiling for calling and texting, internet costs depend on the free market.

Currently, the price for domestic calls is 2.45 TL per minute, international calls 24.57 TL per minute and the SMS price is 1.75 TL. These are the data that BTK publishes every six months, between April and October. Mobile electronic communications services Maximum rate They are determined by the declaration and will be presented with new increased packages after the increase that will take place on April 1.

Internet costs are not included in this declaration. HE, Electronic communications law It is processed under free market conditions. Therefore, we cannot yet predict the fate of internet costs.

Anyone who wants to protect themselves against the increase for a while is advised to renew or extend their commitments before April.

According to BTK data, operators are quite profitable.

Data in the third quarter of 2023; Total sales revenues of TT Mobile, Turkcell, Türk Telekom and Vodafone 48.3 billion TL shows that it is so. On the equity side, TT Mobile has 8.5 billion shares, Turkcell 15.7 billion shares, Türk Telekom 10.1 billion shares and Vodafone 14.5 billion shares.

Chairman of the Consumers’ Association Levent KüçükHe also stated that unused minutes and internet should be refunded, saying:

“On average, operators vary their packages and rates. 150 percent increase made. It happens that this number increases even more. In addition, operators do not carry over unused internet and minutes in the package to the next month and do not refund the unused portion. For example, the operator sells 20 gigabytes of internet to the citizen, but the citizen gets paid for it even if he uses 10 gigabytes at the end of the month. So citizen He pays for a service that he does not use.. This practice must be stopped.”

What are your thoughts?