Denis O'Brien's Digicel group picks a fight with Google and Facebook
by Roy Greenslade from Technology | The Guardian on (#P3Y6)
His Caribbean mobile phone operator is to block web companies' adverts
A mobile phone company controlled by Denis O'Brien, the Irish media mogul, has started blocking advertisements on its networks.
Digicel, the leading operator across the Caribbean, has launched the initiative as a way of forcing internet companies, such as Google, Yahoo and Facebook, to pay for access its customers.
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