The Coptic Pope in Egypt, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria has issued a ban on priests taking confessions over the telephone for fear that the government's security agents may be bugging the phone lines.
Citing national security concerncs, Egypt required that Apple cripple the iPhone 3G’s GPS feature in order to sell the handset in Egypt. Turns out, Egyptian iPhone 3Gs still pack GPS hardware within, just waiting for someone to bring it back to life. Hakint0sh forums are ablaze with Egyptian iPhone 3G users confirming that they’ve managed to
Three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea have been damaged, disrupting Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe, reports Bloomberg. The three cable systems carry more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East, Europe and America, according to the U.K.’s Interoute Plc, which operates a fiber-
Before you complain for the nth time about how your local carrier’s 3G service sucks, is often unreliable and generally useless, consider this: North Korea didn’t have a 3G network until this week. No kidding. Orascom Telecom in Cairo, Egypt, has helped greatly in accelerating the local launch of Cheo Technology’s North Korean 3G network. Cheo
North Korea can't even figure out how to sufficiently feed all of its citizens, yet Kim Jong Il and his comrades are about to read this on 3G speeds while throwing back a fifth of SoCo and catching a pirated Bollywood flick on BetaMax. Egypt's Orascom Telecom is about to flip the switch on the first 3G network in the nation, which was announced back in May. The outfit is expected to inve...
