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Re: Egypt 'hijacked Vodafone network'
From: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace () rocketmail com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 11:20:04 -0800 (PST)
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Scott Brim <scott.brim () gmail com> wrote:
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.
I wonder if these messages were blockable by the end-user or if they were being sent as a service announcement from Vodafone. Certainly, if the government were sending the messages under the company name then something sounds wrong about that. What I would like is to hear from someone who received the messages and what their experiences were. Andrew
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)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- 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)