[comp.dcom.telecom] Kuwait Cellular Phones

"McMahon,Brian D" <MCMAHON%GRIN1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu> (08/21/90)

An interesting telecom angle on Iraq's occupation of Kuwait came up in
an NPR (National Public Radio in the U.S.) report, heard at 0815 CDT
today over KUNI.  According to the report, Kuwaitis who had escaped to
Saudi Arabia are using cellular phones as they attempt to reach
friends and family who remained behind.  Regular phone service has of
course been cut, but apparently cellular still works sometimes.

(Probably not often; according to the report, the Kuwaitis drive to
the border area every day to try again.)