On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Scott Brim <scott.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/03/2011 10:14 EST, Marshall Eubanks wrote: >> >> On Feb 3, 2011, at 9:24 AM, andrew.wallace wrote: >> >>> Mobile phone firm Vodafone accuses the Egyptian authorities of >>> using its network to send pro-government text messages. >>> >>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12357694 >> >> Here is their PR >> >> http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/press.html >> >> Note that this is entirely legal, under "the emergency powers >> provisions of the Telecoms Act" > > Which is legal, Vodafone's protest or the government's telling them to > send messages? afaik the agreement was that the operator would have > preloaded canned messages, agreed on in advance with the government, and > now the government is telling them to send out arbitrary messages they > compose on the spot. > >
I wonder if these messages were blockable by the end-user or if they were being sent as a service announcement from Vodafone. Certainly, if the government were sending the messages under the company name then something sounds wrong about that. What I would like is to hear from someone who received the messages and what their experiences were. Andrew
