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Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

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Re: Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

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Post by appendixsuffix »

mrtksn wrote: post #13
appendixsuffix wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have a wonderful logic! Modus operandi of your mind: if someone's account is new, she must lie!

I added many more links to solidify the evidence, including a link from BBC. The age of your account combined with the factually wrong information that you provide indicates that you are spammer at best, govt. propaganda worker at worst. I'm really sorry that the Turkish population is so divided and I am sorry for what Gulenists did to this country, it's just sad.

BBC and other respectable news sources did not mention "the 112 thing". You are obfuscating facts!

Re: Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

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Post by mustaflex »

mrtksn wrote: post #5
appendixsuffix wrote: post #4

You are doing black propaganda my friend. Hacker News is not a place for your intentions!

Sorry you feel that way but I think it is a fascinating example of governments interference in the communication channels. I wrote the political information to give a context. The information is factually correct, it's not my interpretation except defining the message as a propaganda message.

They did play a message from Ergodan when you call any number but only for clients of 2 mobile operators: Turkcell and Vodafone. http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/telefonla-konusmak-isteyenlere-er... Link in turkish but it confirms what this post says.

Re: Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

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Post by mustaflex »

OzzyB wrote: post #22

I don't understand what the problem is. How is this any different from the Queen of England taking over the entire UK airwaves for a half-hour speech on Christmas Day? /s

The difference is you can opt to not listen to the Queen, here you have no other choice, the message is played for any call you make.

Re: Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

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Post by plafl »

OzzyB wrote: post #22

I don't understand what the problem is. How is this any different from the Queen of England taking over the entire UK airwaves for a half-hour speech on Christmas Day? /s

Phone seems much more intrusive to me since it's a quite personal and private channel of communication as opossed to TV, or it should be at least.

Re: Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

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Post by johansch »

mustaflex wrote: post #23
mrtksn wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry you feel that way but I think it is a fascinating example of governments interference in the communication channels. I wrote the political information to give a context. The information is factually correct, it's not my interpretation except defining the message as a propaganda message.

They did play a message from Ergodan when you call any number but only for clients of 2 mobile operators: Turkcell and Vodafone. http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/telefonla-konusmak-isteyenlere-er... Link in turkish but it confirms what this post says.

Implementations for something as "innovative" as this are bound to be spotty early on. Is there even pre-existing infrastructure/services/software support in typical networks for stunts like this or was this something they had to build?

Did they need to involve their network infra suppliers? For Turkcell that's fully outsourced to Ericsson; network hardware, services implementation, ops, etc etc; pretty much everything below the customer service/marketing level:

https://www.ericsson.com/en/press-releases/2016/11/turkcell-...

Which means that maybe someone at Ericsson in Sweden ended up implementing this crazy thing some time the past week or so. :/

... makes me think about that mandatory engineering ethics class a long time ago.

Re: Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

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Post by mrtksn »

johansch wrote: post #26
mustaflex wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They did play a message from Ergodan when you call any number but only for clients of 2 mobile operators: Turkcell and Vodafone. http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/telefonla-konusmak-isteyenlere-er... Link in turkish but it confirms what this post says.

Implementations for something as "innovative" as this are bound to be spotty early on. Is there even pre-existing infrastructure/services/software support in typical networks for stunts like this or was this something they had to build? Did they need to involve their network infra suppliers? For Turkcell that's fully outsourced to Ericsson; network hardware, services implementation, ops, etc etc; pretty much everythi…

Interesting question. Some Turkish operators provide a premium service that lets users play a message or some music to their callers while their phone is ringing.

I would guess that the same technology was used.

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