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Flipping the switch: cutting off the internet in Egypt
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[I]n an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now.
But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four Egyptian ISPs for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world. [...]
What happens when you disconnect a modern economy and 80,000,000 people from the Internet? What will happen tomorrow, on the streets and in the credit markets? This has never happened before, and the unknowns are piling up.
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Is there any news on when the internet will be back on??
As of 11:30 am EST, the internet is shut down in Egypt, with the exception of one ISP. Here’s a story on that :
http://newsgrange.com/why-one-egyptian-isp-is-still-online/