Die Washington Post hat einen Artikel veröffentlicht, der die Organisation von politischem Widerstand via Handy & Co. in den Golfstaaten beschreibt:
In the Gulf, Dissidence Goes Digital – Text Messaging Is New Tool Of Political Underground
In this roiling political spring of protest and debate about democracy in repressive Arab countries, cell phone text messaging has become a powerful underground channel of free and often impolite speech, especially in the oil-rich Persian Gulf monarchies, where mobile phones are common but candid public talk about politics is not.