The Associated Press and Reuters both confirmed reports of widespread outtages within Egypt affecting customers of all of the country s main ISPs. The unexplained, country-wide outage follows days of violent street protests against the government of Hosni Mubarak. It is still unclear whether the outage was government sanctioned and, if so, who ordered it. The impact of the crackdown on Egypt’s economy is unclear, though large disruptions can be expected for communications, commerce and travel tomorrow, should Internet access remain blocked.
Source: https://threatpost.com/amid-protests-egypt-severs-ties-internet-012711/74889/