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@gmail.com> wrote: From: warigia bowman <warigia@gmail.com> Subject: [kictanet] In egypt-internet governance To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@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 -- Dr. Warigia Bowman Visiting Assistant Professor American University in Cairo -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: jwalu@yahoo.com Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/jwalu%40yahoo.com