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

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

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.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org>wrote:

> 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
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