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Syrian Internet Shutdown
(Updates on the restoration of Syria’s internet at the bottom of this page. –jim) Starting at 3:35 UTC today (6:35am local time), approximately two-thirds of all Syrian networks became unreachable...
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Syria Briefly Disconnects
For about 40 minutes today, all networks routed through the Syrian incumbent, Syrian Telecommunications Establishment (AS29256 and AS29386), were withdrawn from the global routing table, effectively...
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PCCW Keeps Syria Connected
As the conflict in Syria continues unabated, we have observed an increase in the number of significant Internet outages in this war-torn country in the past six weeks. We first commented on the...
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Could It Happen In Your Country?
{Updated; see below for lists of countries for easier reference, and a special offer for WCIT attendees. —jim} How hard is it to disconnect a country from the Internet, really? That’s the number one...
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Syria, Venezuela, Ukraine: Internet Under Fire
photo by curiouslee on Flickr Renesys is headed to RightsCon next week, to bring some data to the discussions around evolving Internet localization, the economics of infrastructure diversification,...
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Internet Returns to Aleppo, Syria
In the past week, we have detected the first signs of the Internet returning to Syria’s largest city, Aleppo. Internet service in this part of the country was knocked out on March 24 — over seven...
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Five Years After Egypt
This week marks a somber milestone in Internet history: the 5-year anniversary of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s order to shutdown his country’s access to the global Internet amid widespread...
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Syria goes to extremes to foil cheaters
Early this morning in Syria, the Internet was almost entirely down for four hours. It was the ninth such outage since 31 July 2016 — each one lasting from approximately 4am to 8am local time. And,...
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War-torn Syrian city gets new fiber link
The northern Syrian city of Aleppo is one of the key battlegrounds of that country’s on-going civil war as well as the epicenter of the European refugee crisis. The most appropriate United States...
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