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Egypt's TE Data vows continued internet service during upcoming demos.

TE Data, Egypt's largest internet provider, has reassured subscribers that its online service would be maintained during expected mass protests on 30 June, Al-Ahram's Arabic-language news website reported on Wednesday.

According to Al-Ahram, TE Data will be ready with an emergency plan to avoid internet cuts during several days of anticipated demonstrations.

One third of Egyptian households had internet access in 2012, three million more than in 2011, according to government statistics agency CAPMAS.

Egypt's total population, meanwhile, reached 83 million in 2012, representing some 18.9 million households, according to the statistics agency.

In 2011, Egypt saw the internet cut in an attempt by the embattled regime of former president Hosni Mubarak to quell the popular uprising against him, which relied heavily on social networking for mobilisation.

Source: http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/75028.aspx

How does it work Keefy, when the revolution was on and we lost internet did the Gov. order that the internet be switched off, I remember when I next went to pay my bill I got two weeks extra as compensation, if the internet provider had no option but to close the service down then I wouldn't have thought they needed to pay compensation. Who does it and how?

Yes, it was a government decision.