In the first quarter of 2025, we observed a significant number of Internet disruptions due to cable damage and power outages.
Severe storms caused outages in Ireland and Réunion, and an earthquake caused ongoing connectivity issues in Myanmar.
Russian networks were taken offline by a reported cyberattack and purported technical problems, while a fire took a telecom provider in Haiti offline briefly.
In Q4 2024, we observed only a single government-directed Internet shutdown, and this quarter, no such shutdowns were observed. Unfortunately, this is an unusual occurrence, and in the three-year history of this blog post series, has only occurred previously in Q4 2023 and Q1 2022.
VIA Cloudflare Blog
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