[136603] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Egypt 'hijacked Vodafone network'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew.wallace)
Thu Feb 3 16:34:02 2011
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 13:32:12 -0800 (PST)
From: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
To: 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 7:48 PM, Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv> wrote=
:=0A>=0A> On Feb 3, 2011, at 2:20 PM, andrew.wallace wrote:=0A>=0A>> 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 Vodafo=
ne accuses the Egyptian authorities of=0A>>>>> using its network to send pr=
o-government text messages.=0A>>>>>=0A>>>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busin=
ess-12357694=0A>>>>=0A>>>> Here is their PR=0A>>>>=0A>>>> http://www.vodafo=
ne.com/content/index/press.html=0A>>>>=0A>>>> Note that this is entirely le=
gal, under "the emergency powers=0A>>>> provisions of the Telecoms Act"=0A>=
>>=0A>>> Which is legal, Vodafone's protest or the government's telling the=
m to=0A>>> send messages? afaik the agreement was that the operator would =
have=0A>>> preloaded canned messages, agreed on in advance with the governm=
ent, and=0A>>> now the government is telling them to send out arbitrary mes=
sages they=0A>>> compose on the spot.=0A>>>=0A>>>=0A>>=0A>> I wonder if the=
se messages were blockable by the end-user or if they were being sent as a =
service announcement from Vodafone.=0A>>=0A>> Certainly, if the government =
were sending the messages under the company name then something sounds wron=
g about that.=0A>>=0A>> What I would like is to hear from someone who recei=
ved the messages and what their experiences were.=0A>>=0A>=0A> They were de=
scribed to me as being "from Vodafone." I assumed that this meant that they=
were service messages.=0A>=0A> Marshall=0A=0AA text message received Sunda=
y by an Associated Press reporter in Egypt appealed to =0Athe country's "ho=
nest and loyal men to confront the traitors and =0Acriminals and protect ou=
r people and honor." =0A=0AAnother urged Egyptians to =0Aattend a pro-Mubar=
ak rally in Cairo on Wednesday. The first was marked as coming from "Vodafo=
ne." The other was signed: "Egypt Lovers."=0A=0Ahttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/=
20110203/ap_on_hi_te/eu_egypt_cell_phones=0A=0AAndrew=0A=0A=0A=0A
