Although he was successful in getting the Egyptian carriers to cooperate, some Egyptians still managed to getonline by making international data calls from old-fashioned telephone modem lines.
The doctors go online and get the patient's data (medical history, drug allergies, etc), which happens to be stored on the computer of a clinic on the other side of the world.
Another option takes us back to the Web -- you can often get an online backup plan that will remove your valuable data not only from that main hard drive, but also from your computer's immediate vicinity.