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The Internet is almost back to normal after the second cut in the same year 2008 , first cut was in Jan and the second cut is in Dec. 2008. I have noticed that we are connected to the Internet again through Turkey Telecom. Although my ADSL at home is from link.net but I have found myself peered with Teddata (another ISP in Egypt) and then to Turkey Telecom. it sounds like ISPs in Egypt peered together and all going out of Egypt through Turkey.

Egypt back to the dark age , with almost no internet access , as a breakdown in an international undersea cable network disrupted Internet links to Egypt, India and Gulf Arab countries on Wednesday, and Egypt said it could take several days for its services to return to normal. It was not clear what caused the damage to the cable. There is a general frustration about such an outage, which proves that we do not have reliable ISPs in Egypt, and MCIT (Ministry of communication and Information Technology) is playing it the Egyptian way (which is everything looks pretty from outside, and bull shit inside). In meanwhile India did not suffer that much, although that this cut should affect 50% of it's internet pipe Reference on News: Link h3r3 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080130/wr_nm/internet_disruption_dc Link h3r3 http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/01/30/44952.html