[governance] FW: Egypt, let your people go online!

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Hi all

In September 2010 during food riots in Maputo all mobile service
providers in Mozambique shut down SMS in response to "instruction". They
first denied it, but then it came out in the end.

This is not at all unusual.  And as far as I know it did not even make
the international press.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201009131445.html

Anriette




On 31/01/11 06:18, McTim wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro
> <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> No Telco in their right mind would willingly shut themselves down in my
>> view, it would be like cutting off an arm or a leg. Any operator would
>> benefit from movement of traffic or consumption of bandwidth or call traffic
>> volumes.
> 
> Exactly my point.   The rhetoric in this petition is reflexively
> anti-biz.  Why not blame the bad guys in this case, instead of blaming
> the victims.
> 

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anriette esterhuysen anriette at apc.org
executive director
association for progressive communications
www.apc.org
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