Live thread: Internet and phones down in Syria: 93% of prefixes offline; government alleges 'after cable damage'

Primary Data

It looks like the Internet was cut from its usual rate of 87.5% prefixes to 7% at around 9:40PM UTC. As of around 1:05PM UTC, the prefix rate was back up to 87.5%.

RipeStat: This link shows that around 9:40AM UTC 93% of Syria's prefixes went offline

• Graph also shows that number of !PV4s active dropped from 87 pre-blackout, to 3 post black-out. And while 3 ASNs were active pre-blackout, none are post blackout

BPGMon.net, a Canadian monitoring firm, has a graph that shows Internet shutout starting at 9:30AM UTC: Country wide Internet outage in Syria affecting 93% of all Syrian networks, starting at 9:30 UTC #Internet #Syria pic.twitter.com/Ltds3mVc1L

At 1:05PM UTC RipeStat seems to show the internet restart back up to around 87.5% and on RipeStat - https://stat.ripe.net/widget/country-routing-stats#w.resource=sy

• Also on Imgur for those non-Twitter users

News Articles

Al Arabiya: Syria Internet, phones down ‘after cable damage’

• "State television quoted the director of Syria’s telecommunications network as saying Internet services had been disrupted by damage to a cable."

Daily Star: Syria Internet, phones down after cable damage: TV

• "BEIRUT: Internet and phone communications inside Syria were down on Monday after damage to a fibre-optic cable, Syrian state television said, without specifying how the cable was damaged."

Voice of Russia: Syria Internet, phones down after cable damage - state media

AP: Internet and telephones cut in Syria

"Calls were not going through to Syria Monday afternoon. Canadian network monitoring firm BGPmon said Monday that Syria was hit by a countrywide Internet outage - affecting more than 90 percent of the nation's networks - at 11:30 Syria time (0930 GMT)."

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Country wide #Internet outage in #Syria affecting 93% of all #Syria|n networks, starting at 9:30 UTC

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@RamiAlLolah Not entirely. North of Syria is peered with Turkey and some connections in Aleppo should still be functional.