After five days of Egypt is partially back online: several sources report that the internet works again in the capital Cairo and Alexandria. Twitter and social networks but are apparently still blocked and can be used only indirectly. After the mass protests on Tuesday on Wednesday the Internet in Egypt was at least partially activated again.
It is still unclear whether the government's responsibility - or whether the providers acted on their own. In Cairo, the access to the network therefore was an Egyptian servers, Reporter reported the news agency AFP. The Reuters news agency reports of functioning network access in the city of Alexandria.
The websites of Vodafone Egypt and Etisalat, two of the largest providers in Egypt, were the first to have reached back into the country. The computer world, which referred to the IDG News Service. Shortly after, Orascom Telecom and Egypt's stock market was again been on the net. The regime of President Hosni Mubarak had closed last Thursday just before midnight German time, the 85 million people access the Internet.
Mass protests should be avoided. The compounds, of which Egypt is connected to the Internet, had been paralyzed at the same time. Even before that sites like Twitter, Facebook and e-mail service from Google had not been reached. This is obviously still the case, services like Twitter work several reports that only through proxy servers.
The Internet company Google also set up a service that can be delivered to the Twitter messages over the phone.
It is still unclear whether the government's responsibility - or whether the providers acted on their own. In Cairo, the access to the network therefore was an Egyptian servers, Reporter reported the news agency AFP. The Reuters news agency reports of functioning network access in the city of Alexandria.
The websites of Vodafone Egypt and Etisalat, two of the largest providers in Egypt, were the first to have reached back into the country. The computer world, which referred to the IDG News Service. Shortly after, Orascom Telecom and Egypt's stock market was again been on the net. The regime of President Hosni Mubarak had closed last Thursday just before midnight German time, the 85 million people access the Internet.
Mass protests should be avoided. The compounds, of which Egypt is connected to the Internet, had been paralyzed at the same time. Even before that sites like Twitter, Facebook and e-mail service from Google had not been reached. This is obviously still the case, services like Twitter work several reports that only through proxy servers.
The Internet company Google also set up a service that can be delivered to the Twitter messages over the phone.
- Kairos Society features Webicina (02/02/2011)
- Piecing The Fragments Together (01/02/2011)
- Egypt: 'Gun shot wakes us at night' (01/02/2011)
- Saving Alexandria by Ingrid D. Rowland | NYRBlog | The New York Review of Books (01/02/2011)
- Briton in Egypt: 'Gun shot wakes us at night' - BBC News (01/02/2011)
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