SAN FRANCISCO - Termination of internet network in Egypt, following demonstrations by the people to demand the retreat of the reins of Hosni Mubarak's presidency, considered as the worst in the history of the internet.
And not only users of social networking and humanitarian activists all over the world, Internet users as a whole as well as state leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama, have condemned the Egyptian government which cut access to communication lines, both phone and cyber world. Egyptian government's move is done with a reason to prevent the demonstrations spread more widely.
"Termination of this communication is the first and largest in the history of the internet in the world," said network experts from Trend Micro, Rik Ferguson, as quoted by Terra.net, Monday (01/31/2011).
Co-founder Cedexis, Julien Coulon, also said the same thing. France-based company that provides traffic management systems and performance monitoring internet it says that in the next 24 hours, they had lost 97 percent of Egypt's Internet traffic.
In fact, according to internet monitoring company from the U.S., Renesys, four internet service provider in Egypt has decided to international customers simultaneous access on the day of demonstrations occurred. Though the number of Internet users in Egypt reached 23 million people, or more than a quarter of the population as a whole in the country.
"The four internet service provider in question is the Link Egypt, Vodafone / Raya, Telecom Egypt and Etisalat Misr. The only internet provider that is still active is the Noor Group but only a few customers. We do not know why only the Noor Group, which is still active but that Egyptian stock market is clear sites (Egyptian Stock Exchange) can still be accessed at Noor's domain, "said researcher network of Renesys, James Cowie.
Cellular communication lines went dead in Egypt. Almost all communication services in Egypt is not working. The communication service providers acknowledge the command of the Egyptian government yanng forcing them to cut access to communications.
"Not only us, the entire mobile communications provider in Egypt are required to cut off service in some areas. This command is absolute and can not be denied, we must obey. Previously there was no warning nothing. All of these policies came to a sudden," said a spokesman Telecom's Orange has named telecommunications company in Egypt ECMS.
All Egyptians could no longer communicate, either through a phone line and internet. Facebook, Twitter and even international network access disconnected. Even according to the news which spread on Twitter, the news agency Al Jazeera also halted his impressions.
By sari, okezone.com, Updated: 1/30/2011 5:37 AM
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