Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Last provider drops and Egypt is no internet

The group Noor, last provider of Internet access still working in Egypt, fell on Monday (31), leaving the country rebelled without network access, according to a monitoring company.

The information is from Renesys. Comments on site Twitter already talked about the fall.
 
The company, headquartered in the U.S. state of New Hampshire (northeast), which monitors the web in real time, said Noor "began to disappear from the internet" at around 20h46 GMT.

The four major Internet providers Egyptians had cut access to its international clients on Thursday, leaving Noor Group as the sole provider active in Egypt.

Egypt faces a week ago street protests against the government of Hosni Mubarak. The demonstrations were severely repressed by security forces, leaving over 100 dead.

The government is accused of blocking the operation of the Internet and mobile telephony to prevent the movement of information that can organize the protests. The procedure has generated criticism from the United States, which upheld the freedom of communications and protection of individual rights.

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