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Pakistan: Clamp On SMS Services

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 @ 18:13 UTC

by Rezwan

Countries:: Pakistan
Topics:: Internet & Telecoms, Technology
Languages:: English

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पाकिस्तान में SMS सेवायें प्रतिबंधित होंगी...

Jazba's blog reports that the Pakistan government is considering to suspend sms services in Pakistan to prevent the terrorists, who uses sms to execute their attacks. At present 70% of the population in the country are using mobile phones and many of them use sms messaging.

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