From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 14 Number 2, February 2011
We warned you to be prepared last month, and now we have an example. Government regulation and control of Internet and phone systems is a threat to open communications! When the government goes upside down, the people are in the streets, and you need real communication links more than ever ‐‐ you are toast. You must expect this. You and your charges are YOYO (you're on your own). You have no web, no dial tone, no cell signal, international lines are cut, local lines are restricted, no twitter, and no texting. You're down to satellite phones, ham radios, and soup cans with string ...
If you are not prepared, you will have a few red‐faced moments.
Info lifted from a wonderful Wired article. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/egypt‐isp‐shutdown
And a follow‐up article. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/egypt‐isp‐shuttered/