Iranian consumers boycott Nokia for 'collaboration' (accomplice to the regime?)

Guardian ^ | 07/14/09 | Saeed Kamali Dehghan

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Iranian consumers boycott Nokia for 'collaboration'

Saeed Kamali Dehghan guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 14 July 2009 21.22 BST

The mobile phone company Nokia is being hit by a growing economic boycott in Iran as consumers sympathetic to the post-election protest movement begin targeting a string of companies deemed to be collaborating with the regime.

Wholesale vendors in the capital report that demand for Nokia handsets has fallen by as much as half in the wake of calls to boycott Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) for selling communications monitoring systems to Iran.

There are signs that the boycott is spreading: consumers are shunning SMS messaging in protest at the perceived complicity with the regime by the state telecoms company, TCI. Iran's state-run broadcaster has been hit by a collapse in advertising as companies fear being blacklisted in a Facebook petition. There is also anecdotal evidence that people are moving money out of state banks and into private banks.

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Good.

It galls to see these companies who advertise with slogans like “connecting people” supply totalitarian regimes with instruments of repression. Talk about cynicism. Same goes for those groweling in front of the Chicoms like Google.

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