New confirmation of communications: We do not deal in dollars

[yota691]

New confirmation of communications: We do not deal in dollars

•  Time: 11/26/2021 15:46:02
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{Economic: Al Furat News} The Ministry of Communications confirmed that it does not deal in US dollars in providing its own services.

The ministry's spokesman, Raad al-Mashhadani, told {Euphrates News}, "The Ministry of Communications is sovereign. It does not deal in dollars at all, but in Iraqi dinars, and this prompted us to provide a purely Iraqi service, which is (Viber to Home) in Iraqi dinars."
And he indicated that "the prices of calls for this service amounted from a landline fiber to the last 5 Iraqi dinars, and from a landline fiber to the last provinces, it is 10 dinars, and from my landline to a mobile phone is 50 dinars per minute," stressing that "these prices are supported by the Ministry of Communications."

[Carrello]

Sounds like "sovereign" communications. What's next?

[dinareffic]

Why is this not getting more attention?  Huge news if you ask Me 

[NWGUY]

Hopefully they will only use Dinars for everything they do.  No more dollars!  

[Half Crazy Runner]

Thanks @yota691!  

[horsesoldier]

If this can be trusted.... BIG NEWS !!!!!

[GreedyDinar07]

50 dinars per minute is nothing to be excited about....

[Theseus]

48 minutes ago, GreedyDinar07 said:

50 dinars per minute is nothing to be excited about....

Per minute charges add up fast. Just ask those who were with AOL in the early days. Not uncommon to have a telephone bill between 800 to 1200 dollars a month back in the 90s if you were on AOL. In addition, there is a reason why 900 numbers charged by the minute. They flat out made more money.

 

Let's say, hypothetically speaking,  the average Iraqi spends on average 300 minutes (5 hours) over the course of their  day on the phone, giving the company 15000 dinars per day. On average there are 30.47 days in a month that comes out to approximately 457,050 dinars per month over a 12 month period.

 

Yeah I wouldn't be too excited about that either unless you had thousands and thousands of customers each spending 460K dinars per month. That would be best case scenario but there are some below and some above those numbers. 

[Longtimelurker]

8 minutes ago, Theseus said:

Per minute charges add up fast. Just ask those who were with AOL in the early days. Not uncommon to have a telephone bill between 800 to 1200 dollars a month back in the 90s if you were on AOL. In addition, there is a reason why 900 numbers charged by the minute. They flat out made more money.

 

Let's say, hypothetically speaking,  the average Iraqi spends on average 300 minutes (5 hours) over the course of their  day on the phone, giving the company 15000 dinars per day. On average there are 30.47 days in a month that comes out to approximately 457,050 dinars per month over a 12 month period.

 

Yeah I wouldn't be too excited about that either unless you had thousands and thousands of customers each spending 460K dinars per month. That would be best case scenario but there are some below and some above those numbers. 

I spent 21 years in wireless, you're correct👍