Syrian Internet comes back to life after a 19-hour blackout
The Internet is now up and running in Syria after a good 19 hours of blackout in the country. Connectivity across the country went down on Tuesday at around 11:30 PM IST and was up and running on Wednesday around 7:30 PM IST.
Internet monitoring company Renesys reported in a blog post that web services had been restored in Syria. “Syrian Internet is returning. First probes making it through, routing restoration in progress,” the company also tweeted from the official account. Other monitoring companies followed suit by announcing that Syrian Internet connectivity was now back on.
More importantly, Google, who’s Transparency Report documents Internet accessibility and connectivity around the world has removed Syria from the list of countries where service disruptions are supposed to be ongoing.
Internet monitoring company Renesys reported in a blog post that web services had been restored in Syria. “Syrian Internet is returning. First probes making it through, routing restoration in progress,” the company also tweeted from the official account. Other monitoring companies followed suit by announcing that Syrian Internet connectivity was now back on.
More importantly, Google, who’s Transparency Report documents Internet accessibility and connectivity around the world has removed Syria from the list of countries where service disruptions are supposed to be ongoing.
Back up and running (Image credit: Getty Images)
While it is still not officially confirmed what the cause behind this massive Internet outage was, the state-run Syrian-Arab News Agency (SANA) was spotted citing that it was because of an optic cable malfunction. “Internet services back to normal across Syria after repairing optic cable malfunction,” SANA wrote on its website.
Syria has been facing an upheaval with the civil war in progress. Cutting off internet connectivity has become a tool in the hands of both the government and the rebels over the past year. Besides Internet connectivity, telephone lines have been cut off periodically too.
Another incident of this sort in November last year saw an Internet blackout in the country for nearly three days. Outages in Syria have been seen to be lasting anytime between less than an hour to over two days in the past year.
Syria has been facing an upheaval with the civil war in progress. Cutting off internet connectivity has become a tool in the hands of both the government and the rebels over the past year. Besides Internet connectivity, telephone lines have been cut off periodically too.
Another incident of this sort in November last year saw an Internet blackout in the country for nearly three days. Outages in Syria have been seen to be lasting anytime between less than an hour to over two days in the past year.
Report by :
Nishtha Kanal
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