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Between 2019 and 2025, Pulse recorded 916 Internet Shutdown events across 61 countries, spanning five continents.

Since July 2020, 136 countries have registered new data centers in PeeringDB, 21 of which are the first in their country.

Despite massive investments by hyperscalers and CDNs into private backbone infrastructure, public Internet Exchanges (IXPs) remain a vital mechanism for traffic localization, reducing latency, and efficiently reaching local "eyeball" networks.

These discussions created a shared sense of urgency and a call to action on strengthening Internet resilience across the region and the continent at large.

The Internet Society, Africa Telecommunications Union (ATU), and African Network Information Centre have released a model framework for building and sustaining Internet resilience in Africa.

For rural Internet connectivity decisions, Starlink's value depends entirely on what alternative connectivity and locally cached content exist.

Sudan is again experiencing exam-related Internet shutdowns. However, Starlink is keeping the Internet on for a significant proportion of users.

Pulse has so far tracked three election-related Internet shutdown events in 2026, the same number for all of 2025.

Global peering is not contracting; it is undergoing a structural transformation.

Four African countries have deployed and enabled DNSSEC on their ccTLD domains in the last six months. Well over 223 million Internet users can now benefit from the protection provided by DNSSEC.

Iceland has returned to the top of the Pulse Internet Resilience Index (IRI), scoring 84 out of 100. See what else has changed.

Internet fragmentation has been conceived of too narrowly–as have the tools that might combat it.