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$ 90 million fine for cutting Internet services
- Subject: $ 90 million fine for cutting Internet services
- From: tme at americafree.tv (Marshall Eubanks)
- Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 12:18:37 -0400
I remember some discussion of this outage on NANOG, and on what it was costing Egypt. Well, here is
an estimate - almost $ 20 million USD / day (which actually sounds low to me).
Regards
Marshall
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/05/201152811555458677.html
An Egyptian court has fined ousted president Hosni Mubarak and former officials more than $90m for cutting off access to internet and mobile phone services during the country's massive protests in January.
A court source told the Reuters news agency on Saturday that Mubarak's fine is $34m, former interior minister Habib al-Adly will owe $53m, and former prime minister Ahmed Nazif has a fine of $7m.
The fine is to be paid from personal assets...