Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Egypt Shuts Down Noor, Its Last ISP
We're hearing reports on Twitter that the coverage of Noor Group's DSL service, Egypt's�last standing ISP which powers the Egyptian Stock Exchange as well as sites of major brands like Coca-Cola�and�Exxon Mobile, is being shut down, meaning there is a risk of Egypt losing all Internet coverage. According to Jacob Applebaum the shut down is occurring in stages and certain sites are still online, "noor.net shut all except NTG, the National Technology Group providing IT processing to the aviation, banking and financial sectors." The ISP's website itself is offline.
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