Nepal gets its cellphone service back
Reuters reports (via the Times of Oman) that authorities in Nepal have restored cellphone service to the country, two months after King Gyanendra (see here) cut off all phone and internet service as an emergency measure to prevent politicians from organizing protests. Gyanendra actually cut off landline service too, but restored that after a week. These latest moves came after mounting international pressure to restore democracy and to free politicians — including the chief of the country's biggest communist group, who has been under house arrest.
[Via Textually.org]
