<p dir="ltr">this article described syrian connectivity as of last july:</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.renesys.com/blog/2012/07/syria-leaves-the-internet.shtml">http://www.renesys.com/blog/2012/07/syria-leaves-the-internet.shtml</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">...lori</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 29, 2012 10:59 AM, "Bill Woodcock" <<a href="mailto:woody@pch.net">woody@pch.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Nov 29, 2012, at 10:49 AM, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <<a href="mailto:patrick@ianai.net">patrick@ianai.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> 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.<br>

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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).<br>

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