According to a report by various internet service providers, Syria is suffering from Internet Blackout.
Thursday, it is reported by the ISPs that Syria is suffering an almost complete Internet Shutdown and this is a latest long series Internet Blackout.
According to Renesys, which first reported the Blackout, it started around 8:30 a.m. ET, 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 connected. pic.twitter.com/o6flIEbkVy
— Renesys Corporation (@renesys) March 20, 2014
Later, it is confirmed by all other Tech Companies, like Akamai, BGPmon, OpenDNS, and Google.
Near complete Internet disruption in #Syria detected by @Akamai traffic monitoring, starting at ~12:30pm UTC pic.twitter.com/MqGovceSHy
— StateOfTheInternet (@akamai_soti) March 20, 2014
Country wide Internet outage in Syria starting at 12:25 UTC Only remaining network are the Aleppo, AS24814, prefixes pic.twitter.com/s74fStmBEz
— BGPmon.net (@bgpmon) March 20, 2014
It is not yet clear, why is this Internet Blackout occurs.
