Syria is almost completely cut off from the global Internet
Several Internet monitoring companies reported Thursday that Syria suffered an almost complete Internet shutdown. This is the latest in a long series of Internet blackouts in the war-torn country.
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The blackout started around 8:30 a.m. ET, according to Internet monitoring firm Renesys, which first spotted the outage. Renesys reported that 84 networks experienced an outage in Syria starting at 12:26 UTC, which is 95% of the routed networks in the country, the company wrote
Internet in Syria almost entirely down at 12:26 UTC. Only Aleppo link to Turkey remains connectedpic.twitter.com/o6flIEbkVy
— Renesys Corporation (@renesys) March 20, 2014 Read more…
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