Robert McMillan reporting from IDG News Service: "Egypt is now off the grid. Four days after the Egyptian government ordered Internet service providers to disconnect from the Internet, the country's last working Internet company has abruptly vanished from cyberspace. Noor Group, a small service provider that hosted Internet connections for the country's stock exchange and other businesses, became completely unreachable at around 10:46 p.m."
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Related topics: Access Providers, Censorship, Internet Governance
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The Noor group was likely being kept up because it was also serving the government in some function and they did not want to deny themselves access.
It would be interesting to see if the government has allowed its own network to go dark as well or if they have found some alternative means to keep it up.