Vodafone faces pressure over Egypt protests

Campaigners will seek to use Vodafone’s annual meeting on July 26 to call on the mobile phone group to prevent a repetition of how its network in Egypt was used to carry propaganda on behalf of the country’s former ruler. Access, a New York-based non-governmental organization, wants Vodafone and other telecoms operators to sign up to an action plan that would commit them to resisting any efforts by governments to take control of their networks.