[LINK] Egypt shuts off Internet

[Jan Whitaker]

At 07:27 AM 30/01/2011, Richard Chirgwin you wrote:
>My reading only: "everything".

On 7 this morning, a guest expert who has spoken with his family this 
morning (didn't say how -- possibly the French number?), all 
communication was shut down, inside and out. It backfired because 
then even more people went out in the streets to communicate and out 
of frustration. He also said his brother's home was looted and three 
cars burned. It's a mess.

There was an ITN interview last night and I wondered how. Then it 
struck me: satellites, which is how we're getting the TV footage. So 
sat-phones must still be working, too. I'm surprised Mubarak hasn't 
gone all in and stopped the journalists, too.

Jan



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