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Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

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Re: Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

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post #48

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Lucky choice of real estate.

Its not Lucky, Location, Location and Location is very important for Geo-politics.

But it's not like the Turkish people, or government, got to look at the 2017 world map and place a claim marker.

It's 100% luck.

Re: Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

#52
post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its not Lucky, Location, Location and Location is very important for Geo-politics.

But it's not like the Turkish people, or government, got to look at the 2017 world map and place a claim marker. It's 100% luck.

wasn't luck hundreds of years ago. that said, the country as it is today isn't in a good position to take advantage of its position.

Re: Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

#53

The number in the video is 112, which is Turkish-equivalent of 911 in the U.S.

I wonder if anyone in Turkey is dialling 112 to test if the message is played. Maybe people are calling their mums to test if the message is on, perhaps it is a good day for telco revenue.

Re: Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

#54

The number in the video is 112, which is Turkish-equivalent of 911 in the U.S.

even for 112? what if some real emergency happens (fire/robber/terrorism)? The caller has to listen to the recording? That's lame.

That's some IT Crowd TV show level bizareness.

Re: Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

#55
post #22

I don't understand what the problem is. How is this any different from the Queen of England taking over the entire UK airwaves for a half-hour speech on Christmas Day? /s

The difference is you can opt to not listen to the Queen, here you have no other choice, the message is played for any call you make.

What? You can opt out by not watching TV, as you can opt out in Turkey by not calling. What's the difference?

Re: Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

#56
post #42

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Can you opt not to have a Queen and not be a subject to some royal family you never voted for or agreed to?

Yes. The UK could vote to abolish the monarchy, but they haven't. In a typical democracy, you are subject to laws that you didn't vote for or "agree to". A modern constitutional monarchy is a structure agreed to by the people.

You can't become a citizen of Canada, a country that calls itself democratic, without swearing allegiance to the queen.

Re: Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

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post #39

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To play devil's advocate: you can opt to not listen to Erdogan, just wait until he is finished. I believe he's right, the Queen's message is similar.

Devils devils advocate here :) It's part of the nature of radio that you are in control of the channel, but not the message heard, as it's controlled by programming - the other kind of programming. This is dissimilar to telephone where a specific channel (number) is uniquely expected to reach a specific person, company, or household. Thus the analogy breaks twofold. First, while the radio works as expected under thes…

Turning on TV and selecting a channel is supposed to give me news or funny people doing funny things. On Christmas day some channels are hijacked by the Queen in the UK. No opt-out is possible (and would be scary).

You are so convinced of your moral high ground that you do not even notice the similarities.

Pot calling the kettle black and so.

Re: Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

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post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you opt not to have a Queen and not be a subject to some royal family you never voted for or agreed to?

Yes. The UK could vote to abolish the monarchy, but they haven't. In a typical democracy, you are subject to laws that you didn't vote for or "agree to". A modern constitutional monarchy is a structure agreed to by the people.

Sure, Turks could also have rejected Erdogan (they voted for his reforms a couple of months ago). What are you trying to say?

And what was the last time that the UK voted to be a monarchy? Because Turkey voting recently makes it arguably more democratic.

Re: Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

#59
post #37

For a additional level of scary allow people to opt out but record who they are and compile a list. Use the list to deny them services or imprison when the next overthrow is attempted."You've been protesting and we noticed you blocked messages from our glorious leader... clearly a candidate for the labor camp"

Ouch. It's terrible when guys like this find guys like you to work for them :)

Re: Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

#60

Have anybody thought why you hear the sound(beeeep-beeeeep-....) when you make a call and from where it comes? Yes, telco can put anything there. Even more, I wounder why we do not hear some commercial Ad's every time we call. This would be in a spirit of current times...

Indeed! Verizon, a carrier in the US, actually made a product out of this by allowing people to buy what they branded "Ringback Tones" which would play some song or tune when someone called your number and you hadn't picked up yet. Not sure if it's still a thing.
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