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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Internet usage is very low, reaching just 1.5% of the population in 2012 [65] and as a result the Internet plays only a very small role in the political or economic life of the country. [ 140 ] The constitution and law provide for freedom of speech and of the press , but the government, nevertheless, restricts these freedoms.
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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 ...