(June 20, 2012, Humanitarian News)--Ethiopians have their attention focused on the controversial new bill
which criminalizes the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
services such as Skype and Google Talk. Netizens are especially furious
over the country’s state owned Ethio-Telecom, which proposed the new
bill. Meles Zenawi's government claims that the new bill is meant to
prevent external security threats.
A number of Facebook groups have already been created to condemn the
state-controlled telecommunication service provider. One of the groups
is Ethio-Telecom Sucks which has 1,297 members so far.Members of this group usually share their frustration with Ethio-Telecom services but the recent controversial telecom bill and the deployment of Deep Packet Inspection - a form of computer network packet filtering that examines internet traffic - caused members to be even more vocal.
Source: Humanitarian News
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