Ethiopia turns SMS back on

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?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 5th 2007 1:21AM]

Hooray Ethiopa!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 5th 2007 1:23AM]

you may want to add an i in that last word there somewhere.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 5th 2007 4:03AM]

LOL OMG IM SO HNGRY

[lejupp Posted Oct 5th 2007 4:34AM]

HNGRY? Is that the new budget Motorola?

[telepheedian Posted Oct 5th 2007 4:28PM]

You mean HNGR?

[realar Posted 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.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 14th 2007 1:57PM]

i am new for this!