Microsoft has decided to temporarily relocate to other countries a part of operations in Egypt because of serious problems with the Internet, writes Computerworld. And other technology companies are ready to take action, and how the situation will worsen with the Internet will be interrupted more. On Friday, the government in Cairo has ordered four largest Internet service providers to interrupt services so that only one supplier with less than 10% of the market has functional services.
Egypt has managed since 2000 to attract more technology companies in industrial parks where multinationals are special offers call center or software development. However, "up" the Internet starts to have negative effects on the local IT industry, Microsoft has moved from Egypt and some of its operations because the tense situation in the country and cut internet connections were disrupted business call - center site.
HP last week advised its employees to work from home on Egypt not to put their safety in danger, but became useless advice since the Internet is virtually non-existent.
The state has created industrial parks where they came from multinationals, the largest accommodating 28,000 employees at 120 companies.
The government cut internet access to prevent the protesters to communicate with them and working poor telephone services. The protests came on the sixth day, and the number of victims has passed 125.
01/31/2011
