Vodafone accuses Egyptian government of co-opting network (Reuters)

Thursday, February 3, 2011 6:01 AM

LONDON (Reuters) – Mobile cause Vodafone on weekday accused the Afrasian polity of using its meshwork to beam pro-government book messages to its subscribers, without country attribution.

"The current status regarding these messages is unacceptable," it said.

Vodafone said the Afrasian polity had instructed the ambulatory networks of Mobinil, Etisalat and Vodafone to beam messages to the grouping of empire and had been doing so since the protests poor out against President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year-rule.

One book communication dispatched on Feb 2 and seen by Reuters declared the positioning and timing for a mass dissent to hold Mubarak

Vodafone had early said book communication services had been unfit in empire at the government's letter but a maker familiar with the status told Reuters the polity had sequential Vodafone to alter the meshwork back on, just daylong sufficiency to beam the messages.

"We hit prefabricated country that every messages should be straight and understandably imputable to the originator," Vodafone said. "These messages are not written by any of the ambulatory meshwork operators and we do not hit the ability to move to the polity on their content."

Telecoms carrier Vodafone, the world's large ambulatory cause by revenue, was told to alter soured its meshwork in empire by the government last hebdomad after the protests poor out.

Vodafone Chief Executive Vittorio Colao told reporters on weekday that voice calls had been switched soured for 24 hours, that data services which allow consumers to access the cyberspace had been switched back on Wednesday, but that book messages were ease down.

A spokesman also said that digit engineer who had been working on the meshwork to ready services streaming had been earnestly scraped and added engineer is missing.

(Additional reporting by Alison Williams in Cairo; Editing by Gospels Jones)


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