During the civillian coup d'etat in Fiji in 2000 all mobile operators and telcos had to shut down service in a particular zone for a few hours and this allowed for the necessary disruption that restored order.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Anriette Esterhuysen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anriette@apc.org">anriette@apc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi all<br><br>In September 2010 during food riots in Maputo all mobile service<br>providers in Mozambique shut down SMS in response to "instruction". They<br>
first denied it, but then it came out in the end.<br><br>This is not at all unusual. And as far as I know it did not even make<br>the international press.<br><br><a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201009131445.html" target="_blank">http://allafrica.com/stories/201009131445.html</a><br>
<br>Anriette<br>
<div class="im"><br><br><br><br>On 31/01/11 06:18, McTim wrote:<br>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro<br>> <<a href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com">salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> No Telco in their right mind would willingly shut themselves down in my<br>>> view, it would be like cutting off an arm or a leg. Any operator would<br>>> benefit from movement of traffic or consumption of bandwidth or call traffic<br>
>> volumes.<br>><br>> Exactly my point. The rhetoric in this petition is reflexively<br>> anti-biz. Why not blame the bad guys in this case, instead of blaming<br>> the victims.<br>><br><br>--<br></div>
------------------------------------------------------<br><font color="#888888">anriette esterhuysen <a href="mailto:anriette@apc.org">anriette@apc.org</a><br>executive director<br>association for progressive communications<br>
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