Last week, mobile phones mysteriously began working in Baghdad, giving the war-ravaged city a needed boost to its shattered communications infrastructure. Now, the BBC reports, U.S. authorities in Iraq have ordered the Bahraini firm Batelco to stop running the service.
"The authorities were concerned that a renegade service provider could upset its own plans to put Iraqi mobile licences up for tender next week," according to the Beeb.
"Since Batelco had not applied for a licence of its own, the Coalition Provisional Authority has asked the firm to shut down its roaming facility. The firm said it had already spent $5m (3.1m) on infrastructure in Baghdad."
(via Techdirt)
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