<br>It's the words "independent carriers" that people are finding not quite applicable in Syria where you have one major telecom Syrian Telecommunications providing all the fixed line services... There are some coax and wireless services coming through other paths and there have been efforts towards liberalisation of telecoms there over previous years.<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Syria">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Syria</a> has some good info (well it did!)<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Narelle Clark<br><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Aqius <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aqius@lavabit.com" target="_blank">aqius@lavabit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-AU"><div><p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Here’s hoping tomorrow news isn’t too bad…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Surely there must be more we can do in this day and age? What would it take for independent carriers to provide a little ‘emergency’ bandwidth in such a situation even if it’s GPRS it’d make all the difference.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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