Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Noor, the last Egyptian ISP business, cutting its network

Noor, the last service provider (ISP) Egyptian still in office, "began to disappear from the Internet" on Monday evening around 22 h 46 (Cairo time), according to Renesys, a site specializing in monitoring the Web . Since Thursday evening, the networks of the other four main operators are split into Egypt.

FAI large companies and the Bourse, Noor was the only operator to continue operations after the complete blockage of the Internet set up in the night from Thursday to Friday on the orders of the Egyptian authorities. If less than 10% of traffic in the country, Noor provides Internet access to institutions such as the American University in Cairo.

But Noor offers its services primarily in the Coca-Cola, Exxon Mobil and Lafarge, is economically and strategically. Tuesday morning, the site of the Cairo Stock Exchange, which remained accessible from blocking the Net Friday, was no longer online. THE ACTION IS POSSIBLE AT LOW FLOW If the ISP was not really a service for the general public, the Egyptians discovered since Saturday night, his backup connection at low speeds was always open.

Telephone numbers and codes to connect to this network via a 56K modem, been circulating in the country. Foreign ISPs, such as NDF in France, had also made available to Egyptians connection numbers. But the use of these services is much more expensive, requiring passing international calls.

Some smaller networks, however, have been working intermittently since the blockade. The library of Cairo was able to connect to the Internet at times.

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