[liberationtech] Egypt's last ISP, Noor, just went offline

[Douglas Finley]

An article about tweeting by phone.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/31/twitter-by-phone-egypt/

It was only last week that Google
acquired<http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/25/google-buys-voice-messaging-startup-saynow/>
SayNow,
a voice messaging startup, They’re already putting them to good use. I mean
*really good* use.

As they’ve just
announced<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/some-weekend-work-that-will-hopefully.html>
on
the Google Blog, the search giant has teamed up with the incoming SayNow
team and Twitter to create a simple speak-to-tweet service for people
currently engulfed in the turmoil in Egypt.

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Jillian C. York <jilliancyork at gmail.com>wrote:

> SMS is unavailable by all accounts.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Erik Sundelof <erik at sundelof.com> wrote:
>
>>  All,
>>
>> Is there any text message capabilities in Egypt currently or is that
>> completely shut down? If there is still some SMS service , is international
>> SMS available?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Erik
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> http://www.sundelof.com
>>
>> Jillian C. York wrote:
>>
>> Reports just now that Noor, the last remaining ISP online in Egypt over
>> the past few days, has just gone down.
>>
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