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Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Johnstone)
Fri Jan 28 12:04:01 2011
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikgrkMB_Us35R9cyn6vDG3qUA-vKHVZeyZWOx=Z@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:59:17 -0800
From: Jeff Johnstone <jj@diamondtech.ca>
To: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anybody knows what is the situation with local traffic, are
> people able to communicate within the country, are there any local
> servers/services that are being blocked/etc. ?
>
> -J
>
> According to CBC in Canada this morning...
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2011/01/28/egypt-protests.html
Internet, data services cut
Internet and cellphone data service was unavailable throughout the country,
making it impossible for news of the protests to be broadcast via social
networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
The lack of service made it virtually impossible for Egyptians, who use
mobile phones almost exclusively, to communicate with one another.
Protest organizers had also been using social networking sites like Faceboo=
k
and Twitter to spread information about the protests.
In the United States, Mubarak's closest Western ally, the State Department,
said the "events unfolding in Egypt are of deep concern."
"Fundamental rights must be respected, violence avoided and open
communications allowed," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said on
Twitter.
According to reports, the government ordered internet service providers to
cut service early Friday morning.
Egypt's four primary internet providers =97 Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Tele=
com
Egypt, Etisalat Misr =97 all stopped moving data in and out of the country =
at
12:34 a.m., according to a network security firm monitoring the traffic.
(The service provider Noor, which is used by the Egyptian stock exchange,
remained active.)
An estimated one million people were expected to take part in the
demonstrations Friday afternoon, which began following prayers at mosques i=
n
Cairo and elsewhere.
Read more:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2011/01/28/egypt-protests.html#ixzz1CLlbJhdl
cheers
Jeff
