Connectivity status for Egypt

Fri Jan 28 16:59:17 UTC 2011

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Jorge Amodio <jmamodio at 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 Facebook
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 — Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom
Egypt, Etisalat Misr — 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 in
Cairo and elsewhere.

Read more:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2011/01/28/egypt-protests.html#ixzz1CLlbJhdl

cheers
Jeff