Ethiopia turns SMS back on
by Darren Murph 
posted Oct 5th 2007 at 1:15AM
Some two years after the sole telecommunications provider in Ethiopia disabled SMS due to a hotly contested election, the nation's citizens can finally put their thumbs to good use once more. Reportedly, the Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation sent an SMS notice to all of its mobile phone customers that wished them a "Happy Ethiopian Millennium" and announced that the service was (finally) back online. Here's to hoping the ETC doesn't get crabby again anytime soon, eh?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
amnigo @ Oct 5th 2007 1:21AM
Hooray Ethiopa!
amnigo @ Oct 5th 2007 1:23AM
you may want to add an i in that last word there somewhere.
Cactus @ Oct 5th 2007 4:03AM
LOL OMG IM SO HNGRY
lejupp @ Oct 5th 2007 4:34AM
HNGRY? Is that the new budget Motorola?
telepheedian @ Oct 5th 2007 4:28PM
You mean HNGR?
adrian @ Oct 7th 2007 6:09PM
I agree with the Ethiopians. Corruption is rife everywhere, even more so in elections. The SMS technology will be used if possible to facilitate it. Although two years is a hench amount of time to suspend it.
yohannes welegebreal @ Oct 14th 2007 1:57PM
i am new for this!