"Beware of rumors", "Preserve this country," "protect Egypt": mobile phone users in Egypt received in recent days, sent text messages such as these to the phone. Sent it include Vodafone - by government order, as the company says. The Egyptian regime has made the mobile operator in the country to henchmen.
Several vendors have appeared for days with government propaganda text messages to cell phones of their customers sent. Such as Vodafone announced on Thursday in London, are the operators were instructed at the beginning of the protests of the authorities' communications to the Egyptian people to send ".
One way to refer to the text or content of the messages to influence, have not given it. Besides the European companies would have the mobile operator Mobinil and Etisalat received identical instructions, it is part of Vodafone. The authorities were referring to the emergency powers of the Egyptian telecommunications law.
Vodafone followed the instructions though, protesting claims to be but the authorities against this unacceptable situation described. "We have made clear that all such communication should be transparent and should include clear information settings," it said in a press release by the group.
In blogs and in Internet photo website Flickr photos were published with illustrations of SMS messages. These depend, therefore, among others, the "youth of Egypt" with an invitation: "Beware of rumors and hears the voice of reason." Another text message is addressed to "every mother, every father, every sister, every brother to every honest citizen, kept this country because the nation is eternal." Another SMS poses as a message of the armed forces and calls for "honest and loyal men to Egypt to confront the traitors and criminals and protect our people and our honor and our precious Egypt." Vodafone also commented on the allegations in connection with the disconnection of mobile networks in the context of demonstrations.
The command to have these trips can not be ignored because it according to applicable laws in Egypt was legal.
Several vendors have appeared for days with government propaganda text messages to cell phones of their customers sent. Such as Vodafone announced on Thursday in London, are the operators were instructed at the beginning of the protests of the authorities' communications to the Egyptian people to send ".
One way to refer to the text or content of the messages to influence, have not given it. Besides the European companies would have the mobile operator Mobinil and Etisalat received identical instructions, it is part of Vodafone. The authorities were referring to the emergency powers of the Egyptian telecommunications law.
Vodafone followed the instructions though, protesting claims to be but the authorities against this unacceptable situation described. "We have made clear that all such communication should be transparent and should include clear information settings," it said in a press release by the group.
In blogs and in Internet photo website Flickr photos were published with illustrations of SMS messages. These depend, therefore, among others, the "youth of Egypt" with an invitation: "Beware of rumors and hears the voice of reason." Another text message is addressed to "every mother, every father, every sister, every brother to every honest citizen, kept this country because the nation is eternal." Another SMS poses as a message of the armed forces and calls for "honest and loyal men to Egypt to confront the traitors and criminals and protect our people and our honor and our precious Egypt." Vodafone also commented on the allegations in connection with the disconnection of mobile networks in the context of demonstrations.
The command to have these trips can not be ignored because it according to applicable laws in Egypt was legal.
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