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Disabling Vodafone SMS in Egypt!?

Posted on 03/05/200806/02/2021 By 3arabawy

Can someone please try to validate that?

Richard Daly the CEO of Vodafone Egypt has been called by the Egyptian Communication Ministry office coriander late at night, at about 11:00 pm attend an emergency meeting and asked him to limit all mobile phones that do not have registration data with Vodafone Egypt which can not be accessed their data when needed, and ordered to close down its short message service for these phones as a way to reduce the risks that could come from behind the coming strike of 4th of May 4 the next!

[Via Zeinobia]

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Comments (6)

  1. أحمد عبد الفتاح says:
    04/05/2008 at 12:33 AM

    بص يا عرباوي
    انا عندي شوية معلومات
    الموضوع ان من كام اسبوع والدنيا مقلوبة علي الخطوط الي من غير عقود
    وطلع قرار بفصل الخدمة عنها للشبكات الثلاثة بس بالتدريج وده بدأ يحصل فعلا
    انا عن نفسي كنت بستخدم اكثر من خط بالشكل ده لانه أمن بس بعضهم وقفت عنه الخدمة من كام يوم ولسه شوية منهم شغال
    الموضوع من قبل 4 مايو او 6 ابريل
    ادعيلنا يا زعيم

  2. Maserya says:
    04/05/2008 at 1:54 AM

    If this is true, they are not the only ones doing what the government wants. AT &T here in the US allowed the gov. to listen to people’s phone calls. Now I found out that Comcast, my internet sever, is blocking many web sites, just because they feel like it. Many web sites are unaccessible through Comcast. Selling out to big brother.

  3. Mati says:
    04/05/2008 at 1:21 PM

    There was something in the news about this a few weeks ago. They said they would shut down all unregistered lines, but I thought this was not going to happen until July. I know it is very easy to get an unregistered line. When I bought mine, I didn’t have photocopies that the guy in the shop needed and he gave me the line anyway and told me to bring them later.

  4. magdi says:
    04/05/2008 at 2:33 PM

    Not true. I have just used my Vodafone sms service. and It is working

  5. Hisham says:
    04/05/2008 at 3:10 PM

    Thank you for the following of good articles!

  6. Alif says:
    05/05/2008 at 1:29 AM

    I was thrilled when I first heard about mobile phone lines with no contracts and no information known by the provider about the customer (save the calls themselves). Iin fact I was astonished that they existed at all in Egypt, being the police country that it is!

    As a still-mobile-free person who values his privacy and loathes submittal-contracts that would have been the last thing that could make me consider a phone. But now, I’m totally free of pressure :D
    Too bad for activists, though.

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