{"id":428657,"date":"2010-03-15T06:25:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T10:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/?p=128360"},"modified":"2010-03-15T06:25:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T10:25:53","slug":"egypt-will-skype-be-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/428657","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Will Skype be Blocked!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are rumours that the Egyptian government is going to block Skype. Bloggers react to the unconfirmed news in this post. <\/p>\n<p><em>Israa El Sakka <\/em>wrote about the rumour <a href=\"http:\/\/israaelsakka.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/14\/egypt-to-block-skype\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>She said: <\/p>\n<div class=\"translation\">In the past few days users has reported problems in logging  in to Skype through their Vodafone 3G stick modems.<br \/>\nVodafone\u2019s customer service indicated that Telecom Egypt is going to block Skype in Egypt, and that it\u2019s out of their hands. After repeated calls from various people to Vodafone\u2019s customer service, they were told \u201cSkype is being blocked since 13th March based on an order from Telecom Egypt.\u201d<br \/>\nIt won\u2019t be surprising to find out that Egypt will block Skype, because you don\u2019t expect that much from a categorized Internet enemy state.<\/div>\n<p><em>Zeinobia<\/em> on the other hand <a href=\"http:\/\/egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/egypt-to-blocks-skype.html\">isn&#39;t sure if the rumours are true or not<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She noted: <\/p>\n<div class=\"translation\">I do not know if this news is true or not , I have heard today&#39;s morning and I can&#39;t check its accuracy. Already Skype works fine with TE Data which by its turn is a subsidiary of Telecom Egypt. Still I will not be surprised to find out that Egypt will block Skype because Telecom Egypt and Mobile phone operators are mad that people are using Skype for free in international calls !! It is more of economic reason I would say than political one actually.<\/div>\n<p>And finally <em>Gr33n Data<\/em> believes <a href=\"http:\/\/gr33ndata.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/is-skype-really-blocked-in-egypt.html\">that the government has nothing to do with this<\/a>, but it&#39;s just Vodafone&#39;s policy.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: <\/p>\n<div class=\"translation\">As you can see, the source of the news are Vodafone users who are not able to use Skype when they are connected to the internet via their 3G USB Modems. And since many of the ADSL home users are reporting that Skype is working fine at their places. Then I have strong feeling that the Egyptian government has nothing to do with this. I believe it is just Vodafone&#39;s DPI that is blocking Skype in order not to harm their revenues.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are rumours that the Egyptian government is going to block Skype. Bloggers react to the unconfirmed news in this post. Israa El Sakka wrote about the rumour here. She said: In the past few days users has reported problems in logging in to Skype through their Vodafone 3G stick modems. Vodafone\u2019s customer service indicated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}