After months of speculation, started with the abrupt interruption of service during the student protest on December 10 2014 and continued to the leaked illegal recordings of phone calls, finally we hear proof that politicians can ask for favors from telecom operators.

The last recordings, from the alleged bulk recorded conversations, reveal minister Minister Janakievski calling TMobile director Irena Misheva to cut service to a telephone owned by someone from the political opposition in the country.

Mr. Zaev already stated that the massive surveillance of cell phone conversation cannot be done without cooperation form the operators. There are reasons to suspect that the operators didn't comply with the Constitutional court order to cut the direct conduits that led to the Interior Ministry between 2011 and 2014. Hearing that any interruption of service can be done with a call from the government just adds another nail to the coffin of privacy in Macedonia

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