[141026] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: $ 90 million fine for cutting Internet services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ML)
Sat May 28 15:23:53 2011
Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 15:23:03 -0400
From: ML <ml@kenweb.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <46E38C54-1A98-4128-99BE-0575CC34F286@americafree.tv>
Reply-To: ml@kenweb.org
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On 5/28/2011 12:18 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> 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).
>
> 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...
Can I fine TEDATA for committing VoIP fraud against my network during
that same time period?
