Tag: blackout

Ofcom is reportedly drawing up an emergency plan to tackle feared internet outages hitting households across the UK. The Telegraph reported that  “runaway inflation threatens to cause a wave of bankruptcies” among smaller broadband suppliers. More …

Households risk being cut off from the internet as runaway inflation threatens to cause a wave of bankruptcies among broadband networks. Ofcom is drawing up contingency plans with BT which could take on thousands of …

Arts.21 Without the Internet, the world as we know would collapse – and chaos would be unleashed. In her book “Error 404”, Spanish science journalist Esther Paniagua discusses our dependency on the Internet and the …

In Hpakant Township, an area in Kachin State rich in jade where traders rely on the internet to buy and sell the valuable mineral, connectivity has been suspended for eight months. Resident Naw Naw said …

Sri Lanka government imposed a nationwide social media blackout after midnight on Sunday, April 3, according to an internet observatory. Some two dozen social media platforms were affected including Facebook, Twitter, …

Chrome users could be facing a frustrating week ahead with some warning that popular websites may suddenly stop working. Google is widely tipped to be launching its new Chrome 100 browser in the coming days …

Many tech companies have clamped down on Russia in response to Moscow’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine on 24 February, with companies including TikTok, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft all scaling back or suspending their operations in …

Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG) says it will auction off 25 military-owned properties in Yangon to raise money for the benefit of the country’s people. The NUG, formed in the wake of last year’s …

As the class tenth board examinations in West Bengal start from Monday 7th March 2022, the state government has imposed an internet blackout in parts of a few districts to prevent question paper leaks during …

For six days in early January, an independent news outlet founded by a DW Akademie partner in Kazakhstan seemed to have vanished. At the time, widespread protests against a surge in gas prices had erupted …