The LONDA 2023 Digital Rights and Inclusion in Africa report indicates that Internet disruptions were unwelcome in 2023, featuring in 5 out of the 26 countries where the survey was conducted. According to the report, Mauritania and Ethiopia had blatant Internet shutdowns, while Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Senegal had varied degrees of Internet throttling and partial shutdowns on […]
The Pakistani government announced on Saturday cellular services would remain suspended in parts of the Punjab and Balochistan provinces on April 21-22 on account of by-elections in 21 constituencies on Sunday, with the main opposition party calling the shutdown “unconstitutional and illegal.” The by-polls on national and provincial assembly seats are the first major electoral […]
Nigeria’s broadband penetration fell to 42.53 percent as of January, and subscriptions stood at 92.19 million, spotlighting the huge deficit in a country with a population of over 200 million. According to the Nigerian National Broadband Plan 2020-2025, the country hopes to increase broadband penetration to 70 percent by 2025. VIA Business Day
On Wednesday, the Ministry of Interior mentioned the shutdown in a written court submission. “It is very pertinent to mention here that the failure of Twitter/X to adhere to the lawful directives of the government of Pakistan and address concerns regarding the misuse of its platform necessitated the imposition of a ban,” said the report, […]
But what most people have missed is how this concentration reaches deep into the internet’s infrastructure — the pipes and protocols, cables and networks, search engines and browsers. These structures determine how we build and use the internet, now and in the future. They’ve concentrated into a series of near-planetary duopolies. For example, as of […]
The new TLS encrypted traffic actually can increase security risks by obscuring malware and traffic by threat actors as well, and therefore requires a fundamental rethinking of today’s monitoring approach. These changes are considered enough of a cybersecurity challenge that the U.S. National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), a part of the National Institute of […]
According to reports, Sudatel is fully operational, with its headquarters in Port Sudan, a city on the Red Sea to the east of the East African nation, from which it provides optical-fibre data connectivity. Currently, MTN is said to still be totally out across the country. The biggest telco in the country hasn’t stated how […]
The Ministry of Information and Communications has set a target of increasing the usage of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) to 65-80% by the end of this year, bringing Vietnam into the top 8 for IPv6 usage in the world. Under the recently approved plan to convert to IPv6, 90% to 100% of Government agencies’ […]
The Far North Fiber project seeks to offer a safer route by bypassing critical chokepoints like the Red Sea. The 14,500-kilometer cable will directly link Europe to Japan via the Northwest Passage in the Arctic, with landing sites in Japan, the United States (Alaska), Canada, Norway, Finland, and Ireland. It would have been unthinkable until […]