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The ongoing Internet shutdown in Pakistan's Azad Jammu and Kashmir is nearing 2-week duration. The shutdown was put into place after protests related to electoral representation for Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Follow connectivity in near realtime:
https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/region/3083?from=1779199423&until=1781791423&view=view1
‼️ Two days ago, #India began blocking access to Telegram across multiple networks amid concerns over exam fraud.
OONI data shows that ISPs in India are implementing the block through DNS tampering, as well as TLS and IP-level interference. The block remains ongoing.
Learn more in our latest report: https://explorer.ooni.org/findings/321816829100 🐙
The BGP hijack may be over, but Telegram is still getting blocked in India according to measurements from @ooni
The BGP hijack may be over, but Telegram is still getting blocked in India according to measurements from @ooni
Internet service in #Iran is still only partially restored following the biggest internet shutdown in history.
We're seeing only about half of the traffic volume we were seeing prior to January 8th, when the first shutdown of 2026 began.
When Local Blocks Go Global: The India-Telegram BGP Incident
In this post, I dig into the leaked hijack intended to block Telegram in India — the latest intentional, but also accidental BGP mishap, in which a domestic block escapes, disrupting a service worldwide.
https://www.kentik.com/blog/when-local-blocks-go-global-the-india-telegram-bgp-incident/
Yesterday’s leak of a BGP hijack intended to block Telegram in India is the latest routing mishap best described as intentional, but also accidental — a pattern dating back to Pakistan Telecom’s infamous hijack of YouTube in 2008, in which a domestic block escaped containment and disrupted the service worldwide.
The subsea cable linking Syria to Egypt was severed yesterday (Jun-14) at 18:50 UTC — part of what is being called a "systematic sabotage campaign" against the nation's infrastructure.
Overall traffic dropped, routes shifted from Telecom Egypt (AS8452) at the time of the cut.
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