[136560] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Egypt 'hijacked Vodafone network'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew.wallace)
Thu Feb 3 14:26:18 2011
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 11:20:04 -0800 (PST)
From: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
To: Scott Brim <scott.brim@gmail.com>, Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Scott Brim <scott.brim@gmail.com> wrote:=0A=
> On 02/03/2011 10:14 EST, Marshall Eubanks wrote:=0A>>=0A>> On Feb 3, 2011=
, at 9:24 AM, andrew.wallace wrote:=0A>>=0A>>> Mobile phone firm Vodafone a=
ccuses the Egyptian authorities of=0A>>> using its network to send pro-gove=
rnment text messages.=0A>>>=0A>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-123576=
94=0A>>=0A>> Here is their PR=0A>>=0A>> http://www.vodafone.com/content/ind=
ex/press.html=0A>>=0A>> Note that this is entirely legal, under "the emerge=
ncy powers=0A>> provisions of the Telecoms Act"=0A>=0A> Which is legal, Vod=
afone's protest or the government's telling them to=0A> send messages? afa=
ik the agreement was that the operator would have=0A> preloaded canned mess=
ages, agreed on in advance with the government, and=0A> now the government =
is telling them to send out arbitrary messages they=0A> compose on the spot=
.=0A>=0A>=0A=0AI wonder if these messages were blockable by the end-user or=
if they were being sent as a service announcement from Vodafone.=0A=0ACert=
ainly, if the government were sending the messages under the company name t=
hen something sounds wrong about that.=0A=0AWhat I would like is to hear fr=
om someone who received the messages and what their experiences were.=0A=0A=
Andrew=0A=0A=0A=0A
