[141024] in North American Network Operators' Group
$ 90 million fine for cutting Internet services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Sat May 28 12:19:09 2011
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 12:18:37 -0400
To: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I remember some discussion of this outage on NANOG, and on what it was =
costing Egypt. Well, here is
an estimate - almost $ 20 million USD / day (which actually sounds low =
to me).=20
Regards
Marshall
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/05/201152811555458677.html
An Egyptian court has fined ousted president Hosni Mubarak and former =
officials more than $90m for cutting off access to internet and mobile =
phone services during the country's massive protests in January.
A court source told the Reuters news agency on Saturday that Mubarak's =
fine is $34m, former interior minister Habib al-Adly will owe $53m, and =
former prime minister Ahmed Nazif has a fine of $7m.
The fine is to be paid from personal assets...=
