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The latest series of partial #Internet shutdowns in #Syria, intended to prevent cheating on high school exams, finished today. These shutdowns targeted mobile providers, limiting the impact.

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A M8.8 #earthquake at 23:40 UTC off the Kamchatka Peninsula in #Russia resulted in a ~50% drop in Internet traffic from the region.

#Tsunami warnings have been issued for Japan, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and other Russian regions.

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It appears that Starlink service has been restored, with traffic recovering between 21:25 - 21:30 UTC. The outage lasted just over two hours.

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The Starlink outage is also impacting #Internet traffic from countries like #Yemen and #Sudan -- both saw traffic volumes drop by ~50% when Starlink went offline.

Loss of traffic occurred around 19:15 UTC.
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Satellite #Internet provider Starlink is currently experiencing a network-wide outage. They have acknowledged the outage, but have not yet provided information on a cause.

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Shutdown season- the Q2 2025 Internet disruption summary In Q2 2025, we observed Internet disruptions around the world resulting from government-directed shutdowns, power outages, cable damage, a cyberattack, and technical problems, as well as several with ...

Internet shutdowns disrupted connectivity in multiple countries in Q2 2025, as did power outages, cable damage, technical problems, and a cyberattack. See the impacts though a Cloudflare Radar lens at blog.cloudflare.com/q2-2025-inte...

The latest round of #Internet shutdowns in #Syria to prevent cheating on high schol exams is half complete. with three more scheduled through August 3.
Exams in some governorates have been rescheduled due to ongoing conflict.
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Two days on, Monday's fire at the historic #Ramses telecom building in Cairo continues to disrupt #Internet connectivity across multiple network providers in #Egypt. Traffic levels remain well below pre-fire levels, and generally lower than the same time a week before.

The recent events show Egypt's very poor ISP market competition and dependence on a dominant local upstream provider is affecting its overall Internet resilience. Read our analysis pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/egypt-i...

The latest round of #Internet shutdowns in #Syria to prevent cheating on exams concluded this morning. In contrast to previous years, only cellular connectivity was shut off this year. The next round, for high school exams, will occur July 13 - August 3.

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The impact is also visible through drops in announced IPv4 and IPv6 address space at a country level.
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Interestingly, the median connection speed increased from ~9.4 Mbps to ~13 Mbps concurrent w/ the connectivity disruption.
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A fire at the historic #Ramses telecom building in Cairo Caused an #Internet disruption seen across multiple network providers. The impact began around 14:40 UTC (17:40 local).

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Timing of the outages aligns with the start time for the postponed 2024 Secondary School Certificate Examinations, as specified at www.suna-sd.net/posts/minist...

If related, then this exam-related shutdown is similar to those recently executed in #Syria and #Iraq.

A widespread #Internet disruption in #Sudan caused traffic to drop ~50-70% at a country level at 12:00 UTC (14:00 local), with complete outages observed at Sudatel, SDN Mobitel, and MTN Sudan.

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The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers Cloudflare Radar now shows how often a given AI model sends traffic to a site relative to how often it crawls that site. This information can help site owners make decisions about which AI bots to all...

Cloudflare Radar now shows how often a given AI model sends traffic to a site relative to how often it crawls that site. This helps site owners make decisions about which AI bots to allow or block. blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-cr...

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Interestingly, this year's shutdowns have (not yet) resulted in DNS traffic spikes, as have been observed in the past: blog.cloudflare.com/syria-iraq-a...

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In addition to ongoing exam-related #Internet shutdowns in #Iraq, #Syria has also started to implement shutdowns during elementary & HS exams. However, they are apparently limiting to cell networks this year, resulting in only partial outages.

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#Internet traffic recovery in #Iran contiunues with the apparent restoration of mobile connectivity. Traffic on MTN Irancell and MCCI returned around 05:00 UTC (08:30 local) this morning. However, traffic volumes remain below pre-conflict levels.

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#Internet traffic in #Iran has been recovering since Saturday, though recovery appears to be primarily on fixed infrastructure providers.

Fixed providers have seen strong traffic growth, while major mobile providers MCI and IranCell remain largely offline.

#Internet traffic in #Iran began to recover around 02:00 UTC (05:30 local) this morning. However, traffic levels remain well below pre-shutdown and pre-conflict levels.

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After initial disruptions a week ago, the current #Internet outage in #Iran has now been in place for two full days, with only the “National Information Network” remaining accessible.

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Customers of CenturyLink (Lumen) in the United States are reportedly experiencing a widespread service disruption. Traffic volumes dropped by over 50% around 21:45 UTC. Social media posts suggest that it may be DNS-related.

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Nearly 24 hours after #Internet connectivity was cut in the country, #Iran remains offline, with the last bits of traffic disappearing around 20:00 last evening.

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According to Iran's Ministry of Communications, "International Internet access has been temporarily restricted to prevent enemy abuse"

#Internet traffic in the country is currently 98% lower than the same time a week ago.

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#Internet connectivity has once again become unavailable across #Iran, with traffic down ~90% after initially falling at 12:50 UTC (16:20 local time).

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At approximately 13:50 UTC, Internet traffic from Iran fell by approximately 75% amid reports that Internet connectivity had been cut nationwide.

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Expanding our internationalization to 14 languages, Cloudflare Radar is now available in Russian and Polish.

Cloudflare Radar теперь доступен на русском и польском языках.

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