[Outages-discussion] [outages] Syria off the net

[Lori Barfield]

this article described syrian connectivity as of last july:

http://www.renesys.com/blog/2012/07/syria-leaves-the-internet.shtml

...lori
On Nov 29, 2012 10:59 AM, "Bill Woodcock" <woody at pch.net> wrote:

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> On Nov 29, 2012, at 10:49 AM, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick at ianai.net>
> wrote:
> > However, many authoritarian governments disallow communications
> infrastructure to cross their border (e.g. "point-to-point T1 outside the
> country") except through a very small handful of very closely regulated
> (read "controlled") agents.  Sometimes only one.
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> Correct.  That's an "international gateway license," of which there's
> generally only one, and it's generally state-owned, since that provides the
> single point for interception.  In this case it's Syrian Telecommunications
> Establishment, AS29256 and AS29386.  There are also a number of ASNs
> normally behind it: the Syrian Computer Society, the Syrian Higher
> Education Network, Syriatel (the mobile operator) and MTN (the pan-African
> mobile carrier with the second mobile license).
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>                                 -Bill
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