Tag Archive for ‘satellite phones’ at LIRNEasia

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Burma: Generals spooked by electronics charge comedian under electronic transactions law

on November 16, 2008

Buddhists are duty bound to offers alms. Zarganar, one of Burma’s most popular comedians, did. But to the wrong monks, according to the Generals. They were protesting the government’s misrule. Among other things Zarganar will be charged with offenses under the Electronic Transactions Law. Burma is short on electronics, but apparently not on law on the subject:

Now, Zarganar has been charged with, among other offenses, violation of the Electronic Transactions Law, which carries a prison sentence of up to 15 years for using technology like the Internet to distribute information “detrimental to the interest of or that lowers the dignity of any organization or any person.”

The government has also charged many protesters with violating the Video Act, which carries a three-year prison sentence for “copying,…

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Tags: Buddhism, Burma, civil liberties, electronic transactions, electronics, Myanmar, satellite phones, Zarganar.

Banning Cellphones in Conflict Zones Counterproductive

Divakar Goswami

on May 22, 2006

This article shows that government’s instinct to ban cellphones from conflict zones because of the belief that it will be used by militants/terrorists to further their cause, actually neutralizes one of the security agencies most potent weapons to track subversives. I doubt that the Sri Lankan government will allow cellular service to be available any time soon in the North. But at least it gives the security agencies some food for thought. The Indian government was similarly reluctant to have cellular service in Kashmir, but the Indian security agencies are their biggest proponents now.
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Troops in Kashmir master new weapon: cell phones
Reuters
By Sheikh MushtaqSun May 21, 1:53 AM ET

Minutes after a bomb exploded recently in Kashmir and wounded Indian soldiers, a senior member of an Islamist…

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Tags: cell phone services, cell phones, cellular services, cellular telephone, Colombo, Daya Master, federal government, food, Gyanendra, India, Indian government, Indian intelligence, Islamist, K. Rajindra Kumar, Kashmir, mobile phone services, mobile phones, Nepal, New Delhi, Pakistan, Reuters, satellite phones, Simon Gardner, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan government, V.K. Batra.

Telecom sans Frontiers

Rohan Samarajiva

on January 6, 2005

From www.timesonline.com

Telecom charity forges links for tsunami victims
by Elizabeth Judge

Vodafone and its industry peers are backing a new kind of aid for
striken areas

AS EARLY images of the Asian tsunami disaster were flashed around
the world, an aircraft loaded with equipment touched down in Sri Lanka
at Colombo international airport.

Within minutes, technicians had set up an emergency
telecommunications centre with satellite phone lines and high-speed
internet connections. Relief organisations were quick to avail
themselves of the service. Satellite lines were made available to
hospitals and to link survivors with the outside world.

The initiative was the work of Télécoms sans Frontières (TSF), a new
charity backed by companies including Vodafone, Cable & Wireless
and Inmarsat. With fixed-line and mobile networks down, the victims in
many of the tsunami-struck regions - as in other disaster zones -…

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