Phones disrupted, SMS and Blackberry

I have received confirmation from a person in a position to know at one Egypt's mobile phone operators that the phone companies have been ordered by the authorities to shut down SMS services (which has been the case for at least an hour) and Blackberry Messenging in Cairo (and perhaps elsewhere in Egypt).

This is on top of more confirmation that internet is not available at least in the Cairo area.

There is a certain irony that I am reporting this from Tunisia, until recently the Arab country with probably the most sophisticated internet censorship in the Arab world.

Comments

[yasser]

Egypt is isolated from the world there is no internet, no face book, no twitter, no phones, I think it will be a massacre in Egypt tomorrow thousands of Egyptian people will be killed by the police

[Fajr Breeze]

it's just a matter of time.. wait & see

[Dawn]

I have a dear friend in Egypt. I am so worried for her and her family. Are you certain that there is NO internet at all?? No phone service at all???

How can we help from the outside of Egypt???

[j. brown]

Ironic indeed that you missed the revolution.

[bmr]

Cell phone voice connection was working yesterday evening in a northern Egyptian city. No sms though.

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