On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@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