It appears that Electricite du Liban (EDL) will finally take action against customers that fail to pay their bills:
EDL has a launched a web site which lists the names and addresses of all those who have failed to pay their dues to the company. The area covers Beirut, Sheyah and Antelias regions. According to a statement recently released by the company, EDL will be compelled to cut off power as of next month on all those who failed to pay their bills on time.
Oh, and EDL will also be filing lawsuits against the parties involved. Will that change anything? Probably not. Plus, the large amounts of defaulters will ensure that the Lebanese judicial system will grind to a halt. But my favorite thing of all has to be EDL’s “website“.
If you haven’t seen it, you must take a look at it. It seems to have been designed by a first-year web design student. Its horrible and you really can’t get any useful information from it. Even their “name and shame” list is impossible to get to; requiring such specific knowledge of someone’s electricity bill that it really questions the whole point of posting the information online. I mean, if I am not paying my bills, I will probably know that and wouldn’t need a website to confirm my status.
The EDL Website: Hopeless, Just Like the Company (www.edl.gov.lb)
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The problem is not only about those who do not pay their bills, the problem is mostly about those who don’t even have a bill because they use ‘thief’ cables to connect to the power grid.
Hi VP, very true. Thanks for the comment. It seems that EDL deploys mini-solutions now and again that, at first, produces results but then leads to back to the status quo. Kind of like their campaign to get everyone to install consumption meters at reduced prices. It worked at first but there was no follow-up action so the campaign just died out.
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It is a welcomed start
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still, they could have spent a bit more time on the website, jc , it would make a blind man go “what the fuck” 😛
I’ve visited the website first in 2000 and honestly, it’s never been changed. Who knows how long its been like that? Why take an organization like that seriously when it doesn’t take itself seriously?
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The website is not as important as following through and cutting off electricity.
Technically true. But this is not the first initiative taken by EDL. Based on past experience, they have a very poor track record. They come out with horns blaring only to sound like a mouse 10 days later.
how can you launch such a website and keep it online??? not only it has no design, it is absolutely useless since you get no relevent information!!! + I loooooove the phone number’s animation 😛
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The same way you have an electricity provider with no electricity to provide, I guess.