Egyptian Internet Coming Back.

Egyptian Internet Coming Back. http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Looks like Egyptian Internet is coming back online which is good news. On the other hand we hear about violence spreading in that country.
Egypt cut off all connections from the world earlier gradually. On January 27, 2011 the internet connections in Egypt dropped drastically and people were no able to get the information in or out as on 31st of January, all the connections to Egypt was dropped. But institutions like Google, Twitter came out with alternative methods for people to get the words out.

Egyptian Internet providers returned to the Internet at 09:29:31 UTC (11:29am Cairo time). Websites such as theEgyptian Stock Exchange, Commercial International Bank of Egypt, MCDR, and the US Embassy in Cairo, are once again reachable.

Let us see if we could see any good news coming out now.
Renesys via Matt Cutts (Twitter)

Egypt Last Internet Service Goes Dark In Egypt, Google Twitter Brings in "Speak2Tweet" service

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I am like most others in the world, take breaks to look what is happening in Egypt. But it has not been easy to find news properly as every time you look, Egypt has lost connections to the world, (See the news post below, Just now, Egypt lost the last Internet Provider)
But at the same time many other avenues come up, just like the Twitter, Google and SayNow (Now owned by Google), alliance's solution.
With this solution which is already live, anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt. No Internet connection is required. People can listen to the messages by dialing the same phone numbers or going to twitter.com/speak2tweet.
Official Google Blog: Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard

AP News

SEATTLE (AP) -- The last of Egypt's main Internet service providers, the Noor Group, has gone dark.

The Noor Group had remained online even after Egypt's four main Internet providers - Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr - abruptly stopped shuttling Internet traffic into and out of the country Friday morning.

At about 11 p.m. local time Monday, the Noor Group became unreachable, said James Cowie, chief technology officer of Renesys, a security firm based in Manchester, N.H. Renesys monitors massive directories of "routes," or set paths that define how Web traffic moves from one place to another. The Noor Group's routes have disappeared, he said.

Cowie said engineers at the Noor Group and other service providers could quickly shut down the Internet by logging on to certain computers and changing a configuration file. The original Internet blackout on Friday took just 20 minutes to fully go into effect, he said.

Cell phone service was restored in Egypt starting Saturday but text messaging services have been disrupted as protests continue.

Egyptian Internet Drops To A Mere Trickle!

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First it was twitter that got blocked in Egypt but according to Arbornet Craig Labovitz, about 5:20PM on Thursday, lost almost all of it's Internet connectivity.
Looks like Egypt trying to learn from Iran, when it blocked Internet during Iranian Political Protests in 2009. But what ever it is, it a shame for Egyptian government or the country, one of the most connected countries in Africa (even though heavily regulated).
Egypt Internet Drops at Arbor Networks.

Twitter Blocked In Egypt!

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Twitter has confirmed today that the microblogging site had been blocked in Egypt. There are widespread protests in Egypt at the moment. Thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule, saying they want to replicate the recent Tunisian revolution.