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According to reports from two monitoring firms, the civil war-torn Syria has been completely cut off from the rest of the Internet. "In the global routing table, all 84 of Syria's IP address blocks have become unreachable, effectively removing the country from the Internet," the networking company, Renesys reported at mid-day, Damascus time.
According to The Atlantic Wire, rumblings of problems with Internet connectivity surfaced earlier Thursday, with some Syrian activists tweeting out reports of web outages as well as some mobile phone disruptions.
Can't call Syria. Scary blackout, as if things can get scarier still. #Syria. #SyriaBlackout
— BSyria (@BSyria) November 29, 2012
Not one single tweet or FB post from Syria in the past hour. #OffTheGrid #AssadCrimes
— The 47th (@THE_47th) November 29, 2012
Another monitoring firm, Akamai, tweeted out a graph that pretty much sums it up:
Akamai traffic data supports @renesys observation (renesys.com/eventsbulletin…) that Syria is effectively off the Internet twitter.com/akamai_soti/st…
— StateOfTheInternet (@akamai_soti) November 29, 2012
UPDATE: "All Google services inaccessible," the search giant also reported Thursday. Here's Google's traffic report:
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