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Electronic information stand without an internet connection, at Schiphol Airport, Netherlands. An Internet outage or Internet blackout or Internet shutdown is the complete or partial failure of the internet services. It can occur due to censorship, cyberattacks, disasters, [1] police or security services actions [2] or errors.
[1] IPv4: 12,288 addresses allocated, less than 0.05% of the world total, 2.8 addresses per 1000 people (2012). [10] [11] Internet Service Providers (ISPs): Afripa telecom, Airtel Congo, and Ofis computers. [citation needed] A growing proportion of the public, especially youth, are accessing the Internet more frequently and utilizing online ...
Telephone system: barely adequate wire and microwave radio relay service in and between urban areas; domestic satellite system with 14 earth stations; inadequate fixed line infrastructure, state-owned operator providing less than 1 fixed-line connection per 1000 persons; given the inadequate fixed-line infrastructure, the use of mobile-cellular ...
A new Senate proposal nicknamed the "internet kill switch" calls for allowing the President to control or even shut down parts of the internet during times of national emergency. Sources at CNET ...
An Internet kill switch is a countermeasure concept of activating a single shut off mechanism for all Internet traffic.. The concept behind having a kill switch is based on creating a single point of control (i.e. a switch) for a single authority to control or shut down the Internet in order to protect it or its users.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - More than 100 inmates have died so far this year in Democratic Republic of Congo's underfunded and chronically overcrowded prisons, a U.N. human rights official said on Wednesday.
Fixed line telephone infrastructure in the Republic of the Congo is very limited; fewer than 1 in 100 citizens have a fixed telephone line. Mobile phone communication has grown rapidly, and by 2011 more than 50 in 100 citizens had a mobile phone. 245,000 citizens are estimated to be Internet users, out of a total population of more than ...
Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has asked his government to fast track the withdrawal of a United Nations peacekeeping mission to ensure it begins at the end of the year ...