For the past week, the news of protests in Egypt against President Mubarak has dominated the news cycle, and has even found its way to the tech world. Around a week ago, the Egyptian government disconnected its people from the internet, as covered by many outlets, including our own.
A day after President Mubarak formally announced that he would not seek re-election this September, Egypt’s restriction on the internet seems to have been lifted, according to an article by Audrey Watters this morning on readwriteweb. While it is not business as usual quite yet, our own internal data shows the effects of this restriction being lifted (chart is traffic from Egypt into our network).
After nearly a week in the dark, Egypt seemed to resume (almost) normal Internet activity around 6:00 am EST, or 1:00 pm in Egypt. This was around three hours after the restriction appeared to be lifted, according to the chart on readwriteweb.com. While tensions are still high and the violence has yet to subside, it seems that Egyptians are able to re-connect with the outside world.
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