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Re: Egypt 'hijacked Vodafone network'
From: Scott Brim <scott.brim () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:59:31 -0500
On 02/03/2011 10:14 EST, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
On Feb 3, 2011, at 9:24 AM, andrew.wallace wrote:Mobile phone firm Vodafone accuses the Egyptian authorities of using its network to send pro-government text messages. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12357694Here is their PR http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/press.html Note that this is entirely legal, under "the emergency powers provisions of the Telecoms Act"
Which is legal, Vodafone's protest or the government's telling them to send messages? afaik the agreement was that the operator would have preloaded canned messages, agreed on in advance with the government, and now the government is telling them to send out arbitrary messages they compose on the spot.
Current thread:
- Egypt 'hijacked Vodafone network' andrew.wallace (Feb 03)
- Re: Egypt 'hijacked Vodafone network' Marshall Eubanks (Feb 03)
- Re: Egypt 'hijacked Vodafone network' Scott Brim (Feb 03)
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- Re: Egypt 'hijacked Vodafone network' andrew.wallace (Feb 03)
- Re: Egypt 'hijacked Vodafone network' Marshall Eubanks (Feb 03)
- Re: Egypt 'hijacked Vodafone network' andrew.wallace (Feb 03)
- Re: Egypt 'hijacked Vodafone network' Mike Lyon (Feb 03)
- Re: Egypt 'hijacked Vodafone network' Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 03)
- Re: Egypt 'hijacked Vodafone network' Mike Lyon (Feb 03)
- Re: Egypt 'hijacked Vodafone network' Marshall Eubanks (Feb 03)