Local Telco purchased a bunch of gear from Ericsson including installation, Ericsson subcontracted it to a local partner on the ground, whose staff got kidnappe

Local Telco purchased a bunch of gear from Ericsson including installation, Ericsson subcontracted it to a local partner on the ground, whose staff got kidnapped. This kind of thing is quite standard in telco. I was briefly involved in one project in Iraq myself, but due to the risks involved stayed in Kuwait and VPN'd into Baghdad, where our local partner had set up and ran the data center.