Posted on 05/10/2015 9:05:13 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus
The Swedish firm Ericsson is working with Iran's largest mobile telecom operator to expand its network and has promised to support another Iranian mobile carrier until 2021, according to interviews and an internal company document. The involvement of Ericsson, the world's largest mobile network equipment maker, comes at a time when many Western companies have stopped doing business in Iran because of international sanctions or concerns about damage to their reputations. While Ericsson argues in the internal document that telecommunications are a "basic humanitarian service," Iranian human rights groups say Iran's regime has used the country's mobile-phone networks to track and monitor dissidents. Though standard telecommunications equipment does not fall under sanctions, four major equipment makers, including Ericsson, have all said they plan to reduce their Iranian business. They have said they will not seek new contracts, though they will honor existing ones. Fredrik Hallstan, a spokesman for Ericsson, confirmed the company is currently working on a new expansion project for Mobile Communication Co of Iran (MCCI), but said the venture, which the carrier calls Phase V, is covered under a contract Ericsson signed in 2008. "We have not extended any agreements ... with MCCI and we have no plans to do so either," he said.
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The real mystery is not one reporter even looked into this, except Peter Schweizer.
How much bullspit is floating around Washington? These politicos with their inside stealing and cutting deals for each other. The press is completely derelict in reporting this because they are in support of the Democratic Party and will not embarrass their leaders. America is in trouble. No one to trust. Hillary deletes emails and spits in the face of America. "F-U" she says, "I don't have to show you shit", in fact, I don't even have to use the government email system, I will disregard the law, I'll keep my own records that I will destroy at will and I will ignore the protocols that the rest of you "little people" must adhere."
LOL, it’s amazing that someone can write that Bill got paid $750K for a speech with a straight face.
I mean, someone should study the physics of that, because it shouldn’t be possible without ripping a hole in spacetime.
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Great find! Thank you!
An article in Swedish from 2012:
http://www.finansliv.se/osten/ericsson-clinton-och-bortkastade-pengar/
The author is surprised. Bill Clinton’s average dinner-talk-fee for 2011 was $250 000, but Ericsson topped the list that year with $750000 for a talk in Hong-Kong.
Surprise, surprise.
When I worked a AVCO, I heard from a guy in Congressional Relations, that they might as well just give the visiting Congressmen their honoria at the airport and let them go home. In those days Representatives could give a speech for up to $5,000, with a limit of $50,000/year, big money in 1980. The Representative from my home district in Queens, Joe Abaddabo (SP?) who was head of the Armed Services Committee was one such “speaker”. I remember visiting home and listening to car radio, I heard a particularly demagogic ad from Adaddabo, vehemently denouncing the defense industry. Go figger.
I got some small measure of satisfaction in seeing that his son wound going to prison from some small ball political corruption. The Adaddabo homestead in southeastern Queens had flipped ethnically during Joe’s tenure, there was no longer an electorate who would have favored his son left.
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