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"Government officials called Internet Service Providers, and the ISPs simply changed their traffic flow configurations to stop international connections. Providers in Egypt, beginning with government-owned Telecom Egypt, started turning off their networks at around midnight Thursday. There are only four large ISPs in Egypt, and so it wouldn't take a lot of phone calls to bring the system to a standstill. By Friday night, 93 percent of Egypt's networks were not reachable, according to Renesys."
