Re: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-21 Thread Ramakrishna Padmanabhan
Hello folks, Wanted to chime in to say that near-realtime outage data/graphs from the IODA (Internet Outage Detection and Analysis) system, at CAIDA, UC San Diego, are publicly available. For example, the following graph shows that the outage in Uganda began at ~4:00 PM UTC on Jan 13th and

Re: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-19 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/19/21 17:15, Sean Donelan wrote: There is only one problem in engineering -- scaling. Country internet shutdowns never go to zero.  There's usually 5% to 15% left over connectivity. There are always a few embassies, international companies, NGOs and even government offices itself

Re: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-19 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, Mark Tinka wrote: Satellite is hard to control, and there are several ways to get it into a country and have it function for purpose without any real drama. It's where we came from :-)... There is only one problem in engineering -- scaling. Country internet shutdowns

Re: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-19 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/19/21 16:28, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: Starlink needs expensive modem, that is not only too expensive for such countries, hard to import, but can be also reason for very long prison sentence. Some nanosatellite with amplified BLE compatible frontend might do miracles. It is

Re: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-19 Thread Denys Fedoryshchenko
On 2021-01-19 15:45, Mark Tinka wrote: On 1/19/21 11:49, adamv0...@netconsultings.com wrote: Hopefully starlink and other similar projects will help bring these numbers down a bit. But I think starlink has been already outlawed in some countries? Moonshine satellite links abound in many

Re: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-19 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/19/21 11:49, adamv0...@netconsultings.com wrote: Hopefully starlink and other similar projects will help bring these numbers down a bit. But I think starlink has been already outlawed in some countries? Moonshine satellite links abound in many places they shouldn't be. It's cops &

Re: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-19 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/13/21 23:39, Alejandro Acosta wrote: So sad to read this. How is it possible to think this is good to anybody?.., ok, maybe to the very high politicians of the country, but no one else. Not less than 44 million people negative affected. That's it. Just to give you a scale of the

Re: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-19 Thread Matthew Ford
> On 18 Jan 2021, at 23:02, surfer wrote: > > ps. So far, I know of https://internetshutdowns.in and > netblocks.org. If anyone knows more than these that're > updated regularly please let me know. I am interested > in 'real time' internet shutdowns globally.

RE: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-19 Thread adamv0025
> From: Sean Donelan > Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 1:58 AM > > In 2016, U.N. Human Rights Council, resolution A/HRC/RES/32/13: "condemns > unequivocally measures to intentionally prevent or disrupt access to or > dissemination of information online in violation of international human rights >

Re: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-18 Thread Sean Donelan
In 2016, U.N. Human Rights Council, resolution A/HRC/RES/32/13: "condemns unequivocally measures to intentionally prevent or disrupt access to or dissemination of information online in violation of international human rights law and calls on all States to refrain from and cease such measures".

Re: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-18 Thread surfer
On 1/18/21 6:24 AM, Sean Donelan wrote: This is not the longest internet shutdown.  Ethiopia shutdown internet access for nearly two months in 2020.  Belerus had several full and partial internet shutdowns over several months in 2020. - Just for fun...this

Re: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-18 Thread Ben Cannon
How much longer before this is declared a crime against humanity? I give it 10 yrs Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ Sent from my

Re: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-18 Thread Sean Donelan
About 5 days later, from January 13, 2021, through January 18, 2021, Uganda begins to restore some internet services in the nation. Most social media sites appear to still be blocked. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55705404 Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni claimed Saturday that he

Re: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-14 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 13/01/2021, Andy Ringsmuth wrote: > >> On Jan 13, 2021, at 3:39 PM, Alejandro Acosta >> wrote: >> >> >> On 13/1/21 4:05 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: >>> >>> The Uganda Communications Commission has issued a shutdown order for the >>> operation of all Internet gateways in Uganda beginning January

Re: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-14 Thread Joly MacFie
New ISOC shutdowns page https://insights.internetsociety.org/shutdowns On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 3:05 PM Sean Donelan wrote: > > The Uganda Communications Commission has issued a shutdown order for the > operation of all Internet gateways in Uganda beginning January 13, 2021 > until further

Re: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-13 Thread Andy Ringsmuth
> On Jan 13, 2021, at 3:39 PM, Alejandro Acosta > wrote: > > > On 13/1/21 4:05 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: >> >> The Uganda Communications Commission has issued a shutdown order for the >> operation of all Internet gateways in Uganda beginning January 13, 2021 >> until further notice. >> >>

Re: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-13 Thread Alejandro Acosta
On 13/1/21 4:05 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: The Uganda Communications Commission has issued a shutdown order for the operation of all Internet gateways in Uganda beginning January 13, 2021 until further notice. I can't access the official Uganda Communications Commission website, but this

Re: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-13 Thread surfer
On 1/13/21 10:05 AM, Sean Donelan wrote: The Uganda Communications Commission has issued a shutdown order for the operation of all Internet gateways in Uganda beginning January 13, 2021 until further notice. I can't access the official Uganda Communications Commission website, but this

Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-13 Thread Sean Donelan
The Uganda Communications Commission has issued a shutdown order for the operation of all Internet gateways in Uganda beginning January 13, 2021 until further notice. I can't access the official Uganda Communications Commission website, but this appears to be a copy of the order