Egyptian government orders Skype mobile blocked

From a Reuters report:

The NTRA had tolerated mobile internet telephony until a drop in international call volumes over recent months pushed them to tell Egypt's operators to enforce the ban, Badawy said.

"We monitor what is happening on international voice calling and it has had an adverse effect on it," he said by phone.

Tarek responds to a Global Voices post:

It’s official now, the NTRA – the government – is the one responsible for this and not the mobile operators. However I have strong feelings that the operators are the one who pushed the NTRA to take such decision in the first place as Skype harms their – as well as Telecom Egypt’s – revenues.

tags: skype, banned, egypt, ntra, badawy, mobile, skypemobile

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