I got this SMS yesterday from the Ministry of Tourism:
“Vote for Jeita grotto. Send the word “Jeita” to 1070. The ministry of tourism is offering this sms free of charge, however a cost of 10 cents will be charged by the organizers of the new seven wonders competition”
What exactly is the MOT offering free of charge? Can someone please explain?
As for the new seven wonders competition, I will refrain from commenting on the whole issue until the voting date is over but I myself will not vote.
they r offering the basic cost for free.. this 10c goes to the organizers… to vote or not to vote is ur call…
Ba3ed na2iss that they don’t offer the basic cost for free. Baddoun yerba7o 3a daher el 3alam?
They should have covered the 10c cost.
All short code SMS have a special charge which is borne by the user (part of the money goes to the telecom company and the other part to the company that registered the short code). Though they are quite late with this option since the UAE has had their local SMS running back in 2010.
Also on the 7 Wonders website, they are reporting that votes for Jeita are slowing down so I guess the government got a little panicky.
The Ministry and the Government and the official Authorities, and all the people involved in the decision are offering us the markup that they think they should have put it for providing us the Telecom infrastructure to vote.
Anyway who said that we should limit the wonders in the world to 7 ?
who has the right to decide if Jeita or any other region is a wonder or not ?
I think that scientifically, an extraordinary location or thing could be a wonder and we could have 100000s on wonders ! For example i consider we have some politicians in lebanon who are great wonders 😀
I voted online without using sms.
There is a link for voting:
http://www.new7wonders.com/archives/wonder/jeita-grotto
It is nice to have a wonder in lebanon, this will add some tourism to lebanon for its views and not only for its clubs.
Unfortunately we are voting for a Grotto while there are a huge conflict between the company managing the Grotto according to the BOT Contract with the Lebanese Government and the new Lebanese Authorities which discovered that the company was not eligible to get this deal but they get it due to the huge corruption in our Public sector and on the level of the leadership !
I really don’t understand why u don’t want to vote!
After all this will boost tourism in Lebanon. The organizers are charging 10 cents so in the text they’re explaining that.
You wanting the MoT to pay your vote is just riiculous…
hahahahhah even free stuff, would cost money in this country …. how ironic
Betkallef aktar b kteer bas la elak tekram 3aynak mesh ra7 nekhod mennak shi bas 10c 7a2 tawabe3
if we vote more than 10 times we vote witout money