Iran’s internet was quite stable throughout November 2020. The only meaningful disruption in this period took place on November 16 and 17, which happened to coincide with the anniversary of last year’s protests and nationwide internet shutdown. On these two days, many users reported that their connections were slow and disrupted. A source at TelecommunicationContinue reading “Network Monitor – November 2020”
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Network Monitor – October 2020
Network Monitor – October 2020 In October Filterwatch observed three major disruptions. Internet users in Khuzestan were particularly adversely affected by these disruptions. The three key stories this month include: AS58256 Rayaneh Gostar Farzanegan Ahwaz were almost offline on October 26 8 o’clock. IPM had two major disruptions on October 14 and 16. Tehran MunicipalityContinue reading “Network Monitor – October 2020”
Network Monitor – September 2020
A significant disruption incident took place in September when, on September 19, Google IP addresses were hijacked by the Telecommunication Infrastructure Company (TIC). An Iranian official claimed that this disruption was the result of a misconfiguration, and that it was not intentional. In July 2018 the Telecommunications Company of Iran (TCI) caused a similar disruptionContinue reading “Network Monitor – September 2020”
Network Monitor – August 2020
In August Iran’s internet faced two main issues. Firstly, the aggressive disruption of circumvention tools including 1.1.1.1, and the second relating to failures in Tehran’s Milad Tower, where an unpaid electric bill plunged a number of its data centers into darkness, knocking a number of websites hosted on them offline. Our day-by-day analysis of keyContinue reading “Network Monitor – August 2020”
Network Monitor — July 2020
In July, the internet in Iran experienced a number of intermittent disruptions and unexplained traffic shifts, as well as one localised near-total shutdown when anti-government protests broke out in a number of cities nationwide. This shutdown incident was limited to the city of Behbahan in Khuzestan Province, where authorities later claimed that a number ofContinue reading “Network Monitor — July 2020”
Network Monitor – June 2020
Internet users in Iran were confronted with a further series of network disruptions in June. As before, the disruptions were largely met with silence from internet service providers and government authorities. Despite this silence, the impacts of the disruptions were still very much felt by users. Unexplained disruptions such as these can also only fuelContinue reading “Network Monitor – June 2020”
Network Monitor — May 2020
After experiencing a month almost entirely free from internet disruptions in April, in May Iranians experienced a number of significant disruption events. The four most significant were: May 2–8: Kish Island experienced a near-total internet shutdown for 12 hours on May 2. After this incident, some Internet providers remained disconnected from the internet until May 8. On MayContinue reading “Network Monitor — May 2020”
Network Monitor — April 2020
Since the total internet shutdown in Iran in November 2019, we’ve not yet experienced a full month without any shutdowns or heavy disruptions. However, over the course of April, our Network Monitor team observed no major disruptions whatsoever. According to data from Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA) there were only two very brief disruption incidents, onContinue reading “Network Monitor — April 2020”
Network Monitor — March 2020
Iran was plunged into yet another major crisis in March, with the COVID-19 outbreak spreading rapidly from its epicentre in Qom to villages, towns, and cities across the country. The public health emergency, which according to Iranian authorities has seen 53,183 recorded cases and 3,294 deaths (as of April 3), has resulted in massive socialContinue reading “Network Monitor — March 2020”
Network Monitor — February 2020
Unlike in January — where we saw a number of sustained internet disruption incidents, and in some cases even shutdowns — we did not see any protracted internet shutdowns in February. However, we were able to observe a number of network disruptions affecting Iran, commencing from 2 February. In contrast to January, much of the disruption wasContinue reading “Network Monitor — February 2020”