Sehnaoui: Unauthorized Activity Detected on OGERO Mobile Network
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Telecommunications Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui on Monday accused Abdul Monem Youssef, head of the OGERO telecom authority and the ministry’s director general of investment and maintenance, of seeking to suppress the truth about a mobile phone station allegedly operating outside state control.
At a press conference he held to announce the findings of a technical team tasked with probing the activities of the station, Sehnaoui said Youssef refused to grant the technical team information it had repeatedly requested concerning the controversial mobile station’s activities.
The station in question had been donated by the Chinese government to OGERO and installed on the second floor of a ministry-owned building in Beirut’s Adlieh area.
Sehnaoui accused Youssef of “persistent administrative mutiny” aimed at “hiding the truth about the phone calls made through this network over a period of four years.”
“When it entered the second floor of the ministry-owned building in the Adlieh area, the committee found the apparatus used to access the network’s central system to be malfunctioning,” Sehnaoui said, noting that “without it there’s no possibility to access the main section of the database related to the network’s activities.”
He revealed that the committee detected a “seven-minute entry to the central system on July 18, 2011.”
“After reviewing the call logs it obtained from the two telecom firms (MTC Touch and Alfa) … the committee discovered that several mobile phone lines, other than those allotted for the trial period, were used” on the OGERO network, the minister said.
He added that a “dangerous” fact was discovered by the committee, which found out that “the network’s call database pertaining to its activities from June 2010 until the inspection of records had been deleted.”
Sehnaoui said that he would submit copies of the committee’s final report to President Michel Suleiman, Speaker Nabih Berri and Premier Najib Miqati.
He also announced that he will ask cabinet to put the committee’s findings on its agenda.
06 December 2011, 02:15
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And what about the Iranian phone network? Do you have the records of all phone calls placed on that network? The network used to support the Party that is implicated in the murder of a former Prime Minister?
06 December 2011, 10:29
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People-mite....
1. The network is funded by a foreign country (Iran) which makes it illegal. It also means the people who use this network are foreign agents and they should be arrested.
2. Do you call killing a former Prime Minister "protecting Lebanon"? How about killing 100 Lebanese on May 7, is that "protecting" Lebanon?
Hezbollah members have been implicated in the killing of Rafik Hariri and George Hawi. They are also implicated in the attempted murders of Hamade, Murr, and Chidiac. We all know they killed Wissam Eid after Eid found evidence against Hezbollah. Hezbollah is not protecting Lebanon. They are foreign agents acting out the agenda of the terrorist Ayatollah Khameni.
06 December 2011, 10:51
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there is no proof whatsoever about what he is saying!!!!!!!!!!!!
another blind accusation from Aoun
06 December 2011, 20:55
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This brand new Aoun-sponsored charade is meant to divert our attention away from more important issues. We're supposed to be shocked by this latest "happening" in order for us to forget about the scandals of an illegal phone network that is being installed under our noses, or that of the Zahrani plant being taken over and shut down forcibly by March 8 thugs, or that of Syrians being kidnapped in Lebanon and sent back to Syria.
March 8 is embarrassed by its own actions and this news item is nothing more than the first out of many cheap shots to follow. Watch for similar news items to surface in the next few days.
