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The end of Skype in Egypt | Bikya Masr - 1 views

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  • the lobbying of the three Egyptian mobile operators, Vodafone, Mobinil and Etisalat have won the most recent battle with regulators to ban the Internet phone service
  • “Now, I don’t think I will be able to talk to my brother in Virginia because it is too expensive. I don’t make enough money to buy a computer and get the Internet at home,”
  • In September, Indian agencies recommended a ban on international internet telephony until a system to trace the calls was put in place.
Ed Webb

By the numbers: Mobile phones on the road to unrest | ZDNet - 0 views

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BBC News - Dubai jails Indian pair for 'sexy texts' - 0 views

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  • a British couple said they would appeal a one-month jail sentence for exchanging a passionate kiss in a restaurant
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Morocco banned Skype, Viber, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. It didn't go down well | ... - 0 views

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  • Maroc Telecom, Meditel and Inwi, the three telecommunication service providers in Morocco, welcomed the New Year of 2016 with the ban of free mobile internet calls made through mobile phone connections.Skype, Viber, Tango, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are among the applications whose VoIP calls have been blocked by telecom operators on 3G, and 4G connections in January and ADSL connections in February.
  • Morocco’s Telecommunications Regulatory National Agency (ANRT), which was behind the ban, justified its decision by stating that none of the services providing voice over IP (VoIP) or other "free internet calls" had the required licenses.
  • a move to boost operators’ revenues from international calls
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  • campaign on social networks to protest against it while online petitions call for the restoration of VoIP services
  • Many children of expatriates living in Morocco and Moroccans living abroad made emotional appeals to King Mohammed VI to restore VoIP calls so that they can communicate with their relatives abroad and in the North African kingdom respectively. Their letters are still being uploaded on “Stop the VOIP ban in Morocco” on Facebook.Petitions have also been launched on the internet, including a letter of protest to the ANRT president, which has already gathered almost 10,000 signatures.While petitions, appeals and boycotts are the only weapons to fight the VoIP ban, Moroccans’ patience might run out sooner or later in the face of a profit-driven oligopoly backed by ANRT.
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