[136442] in North American Network Operators' Group
Egypt: direct economic cost estimated at $18m/day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams)
Thu Feb 3 07:35:23 2011
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:34:24 -0500
From: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner@nic-naa.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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This is from a 3% to 4% estimate of telecomms and datacomms in the
overall Egyptian economy.
The OEDC communique notes that attracting foreign investment may now
be more difficult. (Is there anyone not looking at regional alternatives?)
Source:
http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2011/02/03/egypte-la-coupure-internet-a-coute-90-millions-de-dollars_1474489_651865.html