In the face of an all-around rise in the price of raw materials and consumer products like gasoline, cooking oil and toilet paper, the cost of telecommunications is not only bucking the trend, it is in fact moving in the opposite direction. ADSL (Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line) Internet access and cell-phone text messaging have followed with their own price reductions.
在汽油、原物料、沙拉油、衛生紙等各種民生用品漲聲四起的同時，電信費卻反其道而行，不漲反降。ADSL（非對稱式數位用戶迴路）、手機簡訊等費用，接連宣布調降。