Egypt's Internet suffers severe outages

[Joanne98]

Source: WP

CAIRO -- Egypt's Internet suffers a severe disruption, as a grass-roots protest movement prepares for major rallies after Friday prayers demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years in power.

A major service provider for Egypt, Italy-based Seabone, reported early Friday that there was no Internet traffic going into or out of the country after 12:30 a.m. local time.

Associated Press reporters in Cairo were also experiencing outages. Messages abounded on Facebook and Twitter from users outside of the country.

Egypt has been besieged by its biggest protests in years this week as the region sees inspiration in street protests that toppled the government in Tunisia.



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/27/AR2011012706674.html

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It doesn't matter they're going door to door asking their neighbors to come out tommorrow.

This can't be stopped.

[riverwalker]

1. after Friday prayers

it's about 1:30 am right now in Egypt (I think?). Friday prayers are around noon (from approx 11:00-2:00 pm.)
I have a feeling there will be a new Egypt at this time tomorrow night.
Godspeed.

on edit: Out of curiosity, I tried to access the US Embassy in Cairo website and page didn't load.

[Recursion]

7. SMS is down too

I'm worried about the people I know over there :(

[howaboutme]

2. Why does our own government want the ability to shut down the internet?

Could it be because Americans will inevitably come to the realization that our country and our security, as well as our government and our treasury have been sold out to the benefit of a few elitists such as Wall St bankers, the military industrial complex, lobbyists, the neocons who put the USA last and created false wars, and international CEOs.

This is more about the right of government to squelch any dissent against the status quo and the PTB. It is about the importance of allegiance to the elite versus democracy.

[xchrom]

3. Recommend - and no, this can't be stopped. Nt

[Demeter]

4. All previous revolutions required no Internet

some had no TV, no telephones, no telegraphs...not even newspapers.

It's not technology that makes the trouble.

It's the human soul.

[hunter]

5. So what will we do when it happens here?

A takedown wouldn't be so clumsy in the USA, the pipes of Comcast, AT&T, and other big carriers would remain perfectly clear for the kleptocracy -- you'll be able to watch Fox news and buy as much crap as you want -- but sources of timely, accurate information and communications will simply time out.

It's always best to get to know your neighbors before the storm.

[kentauros]

8. There's always low-power and shortwave radio, CB too.

I thought I'd read recently that the FCC has finally allowed the licensing of low-power stations, and it's still legal to have a micro-power station. Get enough people broadcasting on those, and leapfrog information. Do it like cell phone towers and they won't be able to jam them all. Or maybe they can, at the expense of their own radio frequencies...

I think there are enough electronics geeks out there that things would be built for down and dirty communications. So, even if the big players appear to be all the choices available, don't discount the ingenuity of the oppressed ;)

This is a great site for the electronics geeks out there: Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories }(

[Kali]

6. yeah there has been internet problems for a couple days

my sister is there, we texted this morning but she couldn't get on line at all.

[amyrose2712]

9. I found out about it watching twitter updates...

#egypt # jan25 It is interesting to see happen. Technology will hopefully connect us all.