There has been a great deal of research and reporting on the infrastructure of Syria's international Internet connectivity, particularly in terms of international politics. I think its important to underscore the point that the routing is failing with the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment, who is directly controlled by the family of Assad and has a monopoly on transit. STE will commonly disable domestic peers in rebelling cities through turning off the remote ports in the network structure; despite social and economic ramifications, this is not difficult technically. Tata, as an upstream provider, or MTN, as a customer, are unlikely to be actively complicit of have any say in current affairs.
On Thursday, November 29, 2012, Brian Conley <[email protected]> wrote: > Has there been any discussion of the fact that Tata communications is an Indian company? What's India's stance on the Syrian conflict? > > It was an interesting detail to me to note that an Indian global telecom is such a key player here. Id not noticed that previously. > > On Nov 29, 2012 1:23 PM, "Andrew Lewis" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> From what I remember those networks were never really in use, or at least firewalled from outside the country. >> >> -Andrew >> On Nov 30, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Karin Kosina <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Now, there are a few Syrian networks that are still connected to the >> >> Internet, still reachable by traceroutes, and indeed still hosting >> >> Syrian content. These are five networks that use Syrian-registered IP >> >> space, but the originator of the routes is actually Tata >> >> Communications. >> > >> > >> > Is any of you actually able to reach any of those networks? They appear to be unreachable to me. >> > >> > kyrah >> > -- >> > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- *Collin David Anderson* averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C.
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