[141027] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: $ 90 million fine for cutting Internet services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zaid Ali)
Sat May 28 16:01:20 2011
From: Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com>
In-Reply-To: <4DE14B97.9010005@kenweb.org>
Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 13:00:08 -0700
To: ml@kenweb.org
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I am a little skeptic that this fine imposed is because the government =
truly believes in Internet freedom. Many factions of the Egyptian =
government was to get as much money out of Mubarak as they can and this =
might be a way to do just that. What would be interesting is if there is =
a law passed preventing any member of the government from cutting off =
Internet access.
Zaid
On May 28, 2011, at 12:23 PM, ML wrote:
> 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).
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>> Regards
>> Marshall
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http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/05/201152811555458677.html
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
>>=20
>> The fine is to be paid from personal assets...
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> Can I fine TEDATA for committing VoIP fraud against my network during =
that same time period?
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