Iran's connectivity to the global Internet briefly recovered on March 12 6:35 PM - 6:55 PM local time when a state-owned network (AS58224) that 32.9% of the population in Iran is connected to appeared to toggle its routing announcements off-on-off-on over a 40-minute period.

https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/asn/58224-IR?from=1771680827&until=1773408827&view=view1

During the short recovery, use of Mozilla's Firefox increased sharply.

https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/IR?from=1772112778&until=1773408778&view=view1

The latest #Internet shutdown in #Iran has now entered its 7th day. Traffic remains well under 1% of previous levels.
The distribution of remaining traffic by ASN has shifted significantly since the shutdown was implemented.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ir
https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&loc=IR&groupBy=as

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