Doing business with dictators

[FireGarden]

The entry for Thursday 3 February 2011:
http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/press.html

Under the emergency powers provisions of the Telecoms Act, the Egyptian authorities can instruct the mobile networks of Mobinil, Etisalat and Vodafone to send messages to the people of Egypt. They have used this since the start of the protests. These messages are not scripted by any of the mobile network operators and we do not have the ability to respond to the authorities on their content.

Vodafone Group has protested to the authorities that the current situation regarding these messages is unacceptable. We have made clear that all messages should be transparent and clearly attributable to the originator.

Wasn't there a company with a similar complaint in Iran?

 

[Darth Rotor]

The entry for Thursday 3 February 2011:
http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/press.html



Wasn't there a company with a similar complaint in Iran?

May I suggest you take a look at the ruling elite in Mexico and telecoms?

You may be surprised at what you find.

The parallels in situation are not exact.

That is because Mexico has had enough cultural, ideological, and philosophical enculturation of Western societal norms, from whence democracy springs, that there is some hope that the elites (the filthy rich neo aristocratic class in Mexico) can be dealt with.

I see no such hope in the middle east, though I hope I am wrong.