Internet and mobile phone networks shut down across Syria

[smurfy]

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20546302[/url]

[quote=BBC News][B]The internet and mobile phone systems have been cut off in Syria, a monitoring firm has said.[/B]

Internet monitoring firm Renesys said the country's connection protocols were unreachable, "effectively removing the country from the internet".

Local reports suggested that the internet had been down since early afternoon, and that telephone lines were only working intermittently.

The Syrian government has previously cut off access during major operations.

Renesys, a US-based firm which tracks internet connectivity worldwide, said on its blog: "In the global routing table, all 84 of Syria's IP address blocks have become unreachable."

According to its systems, access was disconnected at 12:26pm local time (10:26 GMT).

Another US firm, Akamai, also confirmed it was unable to connect with Syria's internet.

Activists were using satellite phones to make contact with the outside world, Reuters reported.[/quote]

[imptastick2]

It is crazy that countries can just be shut out like that

[iTrolol]

It's kind of funny how we become so reliant on this technology, that once something like this happens, maybe an entire countries internet goes down, it feels like they were cut off of the main continent and left to drift off into the sea.

[Col. Buggernuts]

Surprised they didn't do this at the start of the war tbh. Article only says they temporarily shut them down during major operations.