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Vodafone confirms role in Egypt’s cellular, Internet blackout

By Stephen C. Webster
Friday, January 28, 2011 14:46 EST
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An executive at London-based Vodafone Group PLC explained Friday morning that it did indeed have a role in the phone and Internet blackout affecting Egypt since Thursday night, confirming speculation that the firm had cooperated with the regime to close off protesters’ communications.

Vodafone Group CEO Vittorio Colao said that because the order by Egyptian authorities appeared to be in line with the nation’s laws, the company was “obligated” to comply.

Egypt, which has been under a declared state of “emergency” for decades, long ago passed a series of security provisions that were later mirrored in post-9/11 powers assumed by leaders in the US. Egypt’s provisions, however, went much further.

The Egyptian government’s order to shut down applied to all mobile phone operators and Internet service providers in the country. A graphic depicting Internet traffic to and from the country showed a dramatic and almost complete drop-off starting Thursday morning.

Some land-line service, however, was reportedly still functioning by late Friday. Sporadic reports of working DSL connections surfaced by late Friday as well, and a French Internet service provider had begun offering free dial-up access to Egyptians.

Rumors that neighboring Syria had cut off its Internet access as well surfaced on Friday morning, but follow-up reports found no evidence this was the case.

Vodafone was for years the Egyptian government’s partner in building and maintaining the regime’s official website and network infrastructure.

Protesters on Friday destroyed Vodafone stores in Cairo, among other locations tied to the ruling regime, according to reports by Al Jazeera English.

In the wake of Iran’s “green revolution,” the relationship between Western technology providers and the country’s oppressive regime became painfully apparent when The Wall Street Journal revealed that Siemens AG and Nokia Corp. aided the development of a digital censorship apparatus.

“If you sell networks, you also, intrinsically, sell the capability to intercept any communication that runs over them,” a spokesman for the two firms’ joint venture told the paper. He suggested the regime’s “monitoring center,” which even allowed deep-packet inspection and information tampering through Internet back-doors, was a standard part of a larger telecom contract with Iran.

It was unclear whether Vodafone’s government-sponsored network worked similarly in Egypt.

Raw Story’s requests for comment sent to Vodafone’s corporate relations arm did not trigger a reply.

Vodafone Group PLC owns a 45 percent stake in US communications provider Verizon Wireless.

Stephen C. Webster
Stephen C. Webster
Stephen C. Webster is the senior editor of Raw Story, and is based out of Austin, Texas. He previously worked as the associate editor of The Lone Star Iconoclast in Crawford, Texas, where he covered state politics and the peace movement’s resurgence at the start of the Iraq war. Webster has also contributed to publications such as True/Slant, Austin Monthly, The Dallas Business Journal, The Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Weekly, The News Connection and others. Follow him on Twitter at @StephenCWebster.
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  • Anonymous

    In other words; Comply and ask questions later -it happens here too.

  • Anonymous

    In other words; Comply and ask questions later -it happens here too.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Oh…Anonymous…where art thou? I believe Egypt is calling thy name…again.

    Verizon is one of the biggest USG shills on the planet. Thru their Motorola crapola phones, they’re one of the biggest aiders and abeters to the Zionists and the Palestinian Holocaust.

    Muaaa haaa… Lookie here, off The Guardian:

    Watching Al-Jazeera from Cairo. Says Vodafone store attacked by mob angry at mobile cut, but same people now protecting it from looting.

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  • Johnny Warbucks

    Oh…Anonymous…where art thou? I believe Egypt is calling thy name…again.

    Verizon is one of the biggest USG shills on the planet. Thru their Motorola crapola phones, they’re one of the biggest aiders and abeters to the Zionists and the Palestinian Holocaust.

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  • Anonymous

    well, hope their offices get hit by outraged egyptians…

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  • P Matthews

    McLean, Virginia — Vodafone should be banned throughout the civilized world.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PCHLMPBJKYTW3LJBHZEZMO3TXQ What Ever

    It can happen here as well the laws are being passed to shut it down in times of “unrest”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TX3MXXPF52BXCKGNLDNPADILPQ paul rogers

    I’m sure that the “fairness doctrine” will include language allowing the government to shut down any speech that it disagrees with.

  • outsidevoice

    It is interesting how recent events are revealing who is on which side, people vs. corporate. This knowledge will not be forgotten by the people. Knowledge is power.

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    nice to see that VZ’s stockholders support totalitarian regimes.

  • Rush Goofbaugh

    I’ve been watching the videos… it doesn’t look all that tough? Maybe even americans fed up with government war crimes and a worthless justice department could pull that off?

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  • Scuby

    So now corporations are working hand in hand with governments and militaries to smack down popular uprisings of the people. There can be no doubt about active military industrial complexes operating in the world today!

  • Anonymous

    Now?

    GWB needs to explain why the NSA was copying all internet traffic coming through AT&T starting in his first months in office PRIOR to 9/11.

  • Anonymous

    Now?

    GWB needs to explain why the NSA was copying all internet traffic coming through AT&T starting in his first months in office PRIOR to 9/11.

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  • http://twitter.com/neapel neapel

    Well at least they just comply with local laws. There are a lot of preemptively obedient companies who don’t even wait for the laws to pass (or go through all possible legal steps to prevent this, Vodafone didn’t do that either) and just betray their customers.

    And then there are companies like Cisco, actually selling oppression-enabling technologies without any pressure except from their shareholders to make money out of every conceivable situation…

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  • Anonymous

    From what I gather by seeing shows on the pyramids, they could use the “phone” booths that the “ancient” aliens used to call home with that are inside. In a few years, if their government is still in place, they can use the “6G” network that was also left.

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    Vodafone comply with the law! Why then do they not pay their £6 billion unpaid tax bill in the UK? Sunday Vodafone stores in the UK will be occupied. Propping up the regime in Egypt will be one more reason to occupy their stores in the UK Uncut tax avoidance protests.

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    So Vodafone was an accessory to murder in Egypt. I assume Britain will prosecute the executives with as much vigor as anonymous.

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    This is an acid-test in the belief of freedom:
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    So, Vodafone owns almost half of Veizon. What happens when they own 51%? Do they then get to stop all traffic due to national security concerns? I’m beginning to wonder if my old CB radio still works?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/LEUDUVF5EGJZRZETF3KV53P7BQ Thomas

    So, Vodafone owns almost half of Veizon. What happens when they own 51%? Do they then get to stop all traffic due to national security concerns? I’m beginning to wonder if my old CB radio still works?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/FPBFO6RC5R2HHIP3VXSFU2RZQA mjj

    Do you really believe t h US won’t use every means available to them to maintian the status quo or cause the desired result?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/FPBFO6RC5R2HHIP3VXSFU2RZQA mjj

    Do you really believe t h US won’t use every means available to them to maintian the status quo or cause the desired result?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/FPBFO6RC5R2HHIP3VXSFU2RZQA mjj

    The second amendment is a hollow bit of bravado and so it using it. If those 2nd amendment devotees were really serious about living by it they would in the woods by now. They have stood by while we have gone to war over a lie and stood by while our economy was outsourced and stood by while the banking and business elites continue to rape the man on the street. You are right in that the freedom to communicate is important in a free society and knowing that you can be sure there is enough people in govt making sure they can do what Egypt just did. To not do so would be suicidal for them. The media today is owned by just a few people or corporations and that circle is getting smaller. Comcast now owns NBC and that means CNBC. Why do you think Olberman is out the door for starters.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/FPBFO6RC5R2HHIP3VXSFU2RZQA mjj

    The second amendment is a hollow bit of bravado and so it using it. If those 2nd amendment devotees were really serious about living by it they would in the woods by now. They have stood by while we have gone to war over a lie and stood by while our economy was outsourced and stood by while the banking and business elites continue to rape the man on the street. You are right in that the freedom to communicate is important in a free society and knowing that you can be sure there is enough people in govt making sure they can do what Egypt just did. To not do so would be suicidal for them. The media today is owned by just a few people or corporations and that circle is getting smaller. Comcast now owns NBC and that means CNBC. Why do you think Olberman is out the door for starters.

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    So?

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  • Scuby

    So….rich corporations who have politicians and governments in their back pocket in order to fatten their wallets at the expense of everyone else….works with the government to make sure they stay in power and continue to scratch their backs….while everyone else lives in economic sqaulor……(i.e. Egyptians)….The same is happening in the U.S., we just haven’t found the balls to stand up to it yet! For instance….Rep. Michele Bachman’s first priority at the end of the year was making sure the richest 1% was given a tax break, while yesterday she espounded cutting benefits for veterans. Oh…and the $1.5 BILLION dollars (taxpayer dollars) that go to Egypt annually…..$1.3 BILLION of it goes to their military..who in turn uses it to buy weapons from…..you guessed it…American defense contractors..Its one big carousel of money going from our pockets to the fat cats pockets…and all you can say is…..So?? Somebody needs to wake up and smell the coffee!!

  • Scuby

    So….rich corporations who have politicians and governments in their back pocket in order to fatten their wallets at the expense of everyone else….works with the government to make sure they stay in power and continue to scratch their backs….while everyone else lives in economic sqaulor……(i.e. Egyptians)….The same is happening in the U.S., we just haven’t found the balls to stand up to it yet! For instance….Rep. Michele Bachman’s first priority at the end of the year was making sure the richest 1% was given a tax break, while yesterday she espounded cutting benefits for veterans. Oh…and the $1.5 BILLION dollars (taxpayer dollars) that go to Egypt annually…..$1.3 BILLION of it goes to their military..who in turn uses it to buy weapons from…..you guessed it…American defense contractors..Its one big carousel of money going from our pockets to the fat cats pockets…and all you can say is…..So?? Somebody needs to wake up and smell the coffee!!

  • Scuby

    So….rich corporations who have politicians and governments in their back pocket in order to fatten their wallets at the expense of everyone else….works with the government to make sure they stay in power and continue to scratch their backs….while everyone else lives in economic sqaulor……(i.e. Egyptians)….The same is happening in the U.S., we just haven’t found the balls to stand up to it yet! For instance….Rep. Michele Bachman’s first priority at the end of the year was making sure the richest 1% was given a tax break, while yesterday she espounded cutting benefits for veterans. Oh…and the $1.5 BILLION dollars (taxpayer dollars) that go to Egypt annually…..$1.3 BILLION of it goes to their military..who in turn uses it to buy weapons from…..you guessed it…American defense contractors..Its one big carousel of money going from our pockets to the fat cats pockets…and all you can say is…..So?? Somebody needs to wake up and smell the coffee!!

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    No Dem or Rep would support regulating the government like that. With the possible exceptions of Paul, Kucinich and Sanders.

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    Because the head honchos at AT&T allowed them to. I’m sure they were convinced it was a matter of national security, their own survival, the perpetuation of their status, and here’s some money and sweet stock options. The people in our government who took a hand in planning 9/11 were looking to find out if anyone outside their group knew what was to come.

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