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Rebels Hijack Gaddafi's Phone Network

A team led by a Libyan-American telecom executive has helped rebels hijack Muammar Gaddafi's cellphone network and re-establish their own communications. The new network, first plotted on an airplane napkin and assembled with the help of oil-rich Arab nations, gives more than two million Libyans their first connections to each other and the outside world after Gaddafi cut off telephone and internet service a month ago.

The network has enabled rebel leaders to make calls needed to rally international backing, source weapons, and strategize with their envoys abroad. To make this possible, engineeers hived off part of the Libyana cellphone network -- owned and operated by the Tripoli-based Libyan General Telecommunications Authority, which is run by Gaddafi's eldest son -- and rewired it to run independently of the regime's control.


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703841904576256512991215284.html

Filed under: Etisalat Huawei Internet Libya Libyana Revolution Telecommunications Thuraya
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