5/24/22, 7:45 PM
Myanmar: Data on internet blocks and internet outages following military coup | OONI
This is evident through IODA data, which shows that all signals
consistently drop between 01:00 to 09:00 local time every night
from 15th February 2021 onwards.
Source: Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA), IODA
Signals for Myanmar,
https://ioda.caida.org/ioda/dashboard#view=inspect&entity=country/MM&lastView=overview&from=1613217600&
The nightly internet outages in Myanmar are also visible through
Oracle’s Internet Intelligence Map, which shows the same timings
in the drop of signals as IODA data.
Source: Oracle Internet Intelligence Map, Myanmar (February
2021), https://map.internetintel.oracle.com/?
root=national&country=MM
Myanmar’s nightly internet outages are further suggested by
Google traffic data, which shows a drop in Google traffic from 15th
February 2021 onwards (in comparison to previous dates), quite
similarly to IODA and Oracle Internet Intelligence data.
Source: Google Transparency Report, Traffic and disruptions to
Google: Myanmar (February 2021),
https://transparencyreport.google.com/traffic/overview?
hl=en&fraction_traffic=start:1612137600000;end:1614729599999;product:19;region:MM&lu=fraction_traffic
When investigating IODA’s network-level signals, we observe that
most major networks in Myanmar now experience highly
synchronized outages, that each begin at 18:30 UTC and end at
02:30 UTC. This synchronization is in stark contrast to the first
Internet outage that occurred during the coup on 1st February
2021; in the time since, it appears that ISPs have developed and
honed techniques to enforce and relax Internet connectivity
shutdowns according to pre-planned schedules.
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