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Re: Egypt 'hijacked Vodafone network'
From: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 13:41:15 -0800
That is horrible.... Next thing you know they'll be sending SMS messages to the people saying "TEXT 666 to donate 58 Egyption Pounds to support Mubarak" On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:32 PM, andrew.wallace < andrew.wallace () rocketmail com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv> wrote:On Feb 3, 2011, at 2:20 PM, andrew.wallace wrote: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,andnow 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 theywere being sent as a service announcement from Vodafone.Certainly, if the government were sending the messages under the companyname then something sounds wrong about that.What I would like is to hear from someone who received the messages andwhat their experiences were.They were described to me as being "from Vodafone." I assumed that thismeant that they were service messages.MarshallA text message received Sunday by an Associated Press reporter in Egypt appealed to the country's "honest and loyal men to confront the traitors and criminals and protect our people and honor." Another urged Egyptians to attend a pro-Mubarak rally in Cairo on Wednesday. The first was marked as coming from "Vodafone." The other was signed: "Egypt Lovers." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110203/ap_on_hi_te/eu_egypt_cell_phones 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)