Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Calis Beach Forum => Calis Beach Questions and Information => Topic started by: lance on March 13, 2013, 07:14:03 AM
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My friends are buying property in calis ,phone line connected also adsl ,i can put my name down i think because they dont have residency,my question is if they get phone line and adsl will they have to pay for it each month ,even when they are not here ,its only being used 4 weeks per year . :)
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I had to sign a two year contract for my Internet Lance, must admit I've not heard of a pay as you go service.
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When we long term rented, but were only there about 3-4months each year, we had the phone line in our landlords name. Just like England, you pay for the line rental and calls on top. If they're not there then they will just pay the line rental as we did.
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How much is line rental and unlimited broadband may have to look in to this myself
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Broadband varies but for both between 70 and 80 tl per month, its a lot jf you are only here 4 weeks per year.
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Actually as in UK you pay line rental and additionally you pay for whatever package of ADSL you want. It really depends how much want the service if you're only there for a short while.
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It is possible to suspend the ADSL service for a few months - I do not know how many. My sister took out the telephone line and ADSL for me ( before I got residency) and it is still in her name although I pay the bills; she has to make any changes to the account and is liable for payment (good job she trusts me - this is important). Last year I was away for 4 months and we suspended the service for 3 months. So, it is possible to suspend the service but I don't know how you go about it.
One important point , which I have mentioned before, is that LIMITSIZ does not do what it says on the tin. One version of LIMITSIZ gives you a maximum download limit of 50Gb, after which your download speed drops right off. The true UNLIMITED version of LIMITSIZ (which gives you unlimited downloads) costs 93 TL per month. Believe me , I found this out the hard way and spent weeks talking to the TTNET English helpline about why my speed kept dropping before I got through to someone who actually knew what was going on.
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Can you tell me what the package is called, I've been into the shop several times and asked if I can upgrade my service, a blank look is normally the answer
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You need to go to the Blue building near the cinima.
I got telephone line and 8 meg internet.
I did not take the free router and so I did not have to sign for two year contract.
I normally recieve 3.5 meg download which apparently is the norm where I live . It costs aroung 80 tl for the internet and another 10 for the line rental.
I got my handset and router from our computer man plus the internal wireing for around 50 tl. Had no problems for around 11 months but for the last couple of weeks have had it dropping off a few times every day.
Solve this by dialing 121 and then number 6 about 10 times and it comes back on.
I have to say, getting a fixed line changed our life. Each of us can now watch our own programs every night. If you get a decent VPN service then the world is your oyster as far as what you can watch.
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Thanks It would be a bit of an expense for the amount of time I am there
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i believe you can suspend it when your in the uk
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Surely the way to go would be a payg phone & a dongle for the internet, nothing else would be viable for only 4 weeks, would it?
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There are some fairly reasonable overseas packages with the UK providers these days (although the EU countries ones are normally far more impressive than the non-EU ones). I pay £3.50 a day when abroad (in EU) and take my UK deal with me - so calling UK from Portugal is nothing while I am still inside my 500 free minutes per month - even though I am calling from abroad. Same with my 500mb of data - no extra charge when I am in Europe.
For Turkey I think it is a fiver a day for data only - far better than the old days of straight roaming and the charges that brought - especially when you combine it with free wifi bars etc.
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I hope to have placed the final jigsaw piece into my Internet battle with TTnet today. Yet again we found ourselves sitting in their Fethiye H.Q. We sat in front of an advisor who asked what we wanted, I want to upgrade my Internet service please, she said, you have unlimited Internet, I said, but you keep slowing my speed, she then spent 10 minutes replying to emails and talking on her mobile telephone, then she said, your connection might be the problem! As I was about to launch into the details on how my connection was new and perfect, she interrupted and said, It's my lunch hour. We got that 'bum's rush' feeling and left the building.
We returned at 1.20, ten minutes before they resumed business, we thought we had a cunning plan to get ourselves in front of our customer services advisor and resume where we had left off, we walked past the security guard who was chatting to a couple of his mates, he quickly followed us into the building and told us that we must wait outside, nobody was allowed inside until 1.30, he then went back and resumed his chat, we waited on the steps as lots of people walked past us into the building, at 1.29 I went inside to find I was 15th in the queue!
Our hopes of seeing the original advisor evaporated and sure enough when our ticket was called we had to start again with a new advisor, once again we went through the scenarios, you already have unlimited, where is your modem placed, your cable is a problem, is your computer old! Eventually, he said they had a package called 8 Limitsiz, the benefit of this package being truly unlimited and they never 'throttle' your connection speed, Hallelujah I thought, then oh sh*t when he told me it will cost me 104 lira per month, anyway, what the hell, it's only money and we will wait and see !
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Pinched this as thought it may be of some value to people who are experiencing poor speeds.
My download speed sank right down to under 300 kbps. My wife prepared a letter of complaint and took it to the consumer court. They phoned the head man at TurkTelekom and told him we were coming over to see him and he had two days to satisfy our needs otherwise they would enter our case into the system.
Over the next two days you couldn't move outside our property for vans, trucks and men up the poles. They renewed cables and tinkered with everything they could lay their hands on. Result, 3.3mbps and fast downloads. A week later it's starting to wane and is down to 2.2mbps and slowing down again. The guy that seemed to be in charge of the gang told us that between them TT & TTNet have paid out over one hundred million TL in compensation.
The only way to get anywhere with them is brute force. We are going for compensation as well now.