Egypt’s information ministry reported Monday evening that all mobile-phone networks will be shut down in the country in advance of Tuesday’s “march of millions” in Cairo. And Noor Group, the country’s last operating Internet service provider, has also been shut down, effectively taking the country offline. In response to the overall lack of service, Google is now offering a “speak-to-tweet” service, which allows those without an Internet connection to leave voice-mail messages that will be automatically converted into tweets.<\/p>\n
Since Internet access was first limited last week, Egyptians have been finding creative solutions to communicating. The hacker group Anonymous has been circulating a document called “20 Ways to Circumvent the Egyptian Government’s Internet Block<\/strong><\/a>.” Some mobile-phone service will be supported by Vodafone and France Telecom. Some Egyptians have even resorted to ham radios \u2014 utilizing both voice and Morse codes \u2014 and fax machines are also being used.<\/p>\n from NY Magazine<\/a>; similar info posted below in a comment by Kyla from slashdot.org.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Egypt’s information ministry reported Monday evening that all mobile-phone networks will be shut down in the country in advance of Tuesday’s “march of millions” in Cairo. And Noor Group, the country’s last operating Internet service provider, has also been shut down, effectively taking the country offline. In response to the overall lack of service, Google … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}