Tuesday, July 22, 2003

HATE IT WHEN CELL PHONE COVERAGE ISN'T WHERE IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE?

What do you make of it when it IS where it ISN'T supposed to be?
A mobile phone roaming service was mysteriously available in Baghdad on Tuesday, bringing cellular service -- banned in Saddam Hussein's secret state -- to ordinary people in the Iraqi capital for the first time...

"MTC-Vodafone wishes you a pleasant stay in Kuwait," a text message sent to roamers in Baghdad said. Other cellphone users reported they had briefly had service on a Bahraini network, Batelco. That went off the air later.

An MTC-Vodafone service representative reached via a mobile phone using his own company's network from Baghdad told Reuters he was not aware of roaming services being offered there yet.

"That's great...But they didn't tell us," he said.

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