[kictanet] In egypt-internet governance

[Walubengo J]

when we were in Egypt for IGF2009, we learnt (off the streets) that the government owned telkos (mobile and fixed) run ALL their several internet gateways.  Abit like what we used to have here with JamboNet in the late 1990s/early 2000s.   Their market is liberal at the retail level but not at the wholesale (national gateway) level. In such a scenario it is very easy to swith off the internet...

the good? news is that switching off the 'net did not reduce the agitation for change and indeed the Egyptian govt apparently switched the (egyptian) Net back on yesterday afty.

walu.
   

 

--- On Wed, 2/2/11, warigia bowman <warigia at gmail.com> wrote:

From: warigia bowman <warigia at gmail.com>
Subject: [kictanet]  In egypt-internet governance
To: jwalu at yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 7:02 PM

In el rehab, cairo at american university 
 
gov shut down all texting and Internet as well as al jazeera arabic from Thursday until this afternoon. Food for thought
 
what is the technical situation? How did government of egypt do this? Is gateway controlled by gov, or did gov pull licenses?
 
need answers
 
Rigia
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Dr. Warigia Bowman
Visiting Assistant Professor
American University in Cairo

 


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