Yeroskipou council is holding the whole island back

I have no interest in PrimeTel but it seems absurd to me that the Yeroskipou villagers are trying to force a company to abandon an investment that will help Cyprus and lose money – out of complete naivety that the value of their land will depreciate.

A fibre optic cable that comes from another country carrying data has absolutely no impact to anybody’s health and all it needs is a room to terminate and then continue under the earth to telecommunication distribution centres around the country.

Every modern city is pushing the fibre-to-home concept, that is pretty much the same concept. This investment will help Cyprus in increasing the connectivity to the rest of the world and lower the cost of telecommunication to everybody; it will help Cyprus offer more services when trying to become a regional business centre and for the local community; it will offer jobs in maintaining the security of the landing station and even house engineers in the area.

As far as I am concerned, as long as the landing station has a good architecture and is not the typical white boxes with windows that Paphian developers build and sell as ‘apartments’, then the municipality’s demand is pure stupidity and probably driven by local populist politicians with a different agenda.

Maybe PrimeTel should bring a neutral expert to talk to the villagers in Yeroskipou and educate them about the situation rather than leave it to the village ignorant know-it-all types to analyse fibre optic communications at the coffee shop the same way they analyse football matches, politics, world crises and open heart surgery.

GD Petrides,
Nicosia

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