Countries in the East and South of Africa are experiencing slower Internet connectivity due to two submarine cables — EASSy and Seacom — being cut during the weekend.
Economic disruption and impact following disruption to undersea Internet network infrastructure is becoming a priority for many national risk registers.
Malawi’s Internet resilience indicators are similar to those of countries that are currently or have suffered from prolonged internal conflict.
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In 2023, exam-related shutdowns accounted for nearly half of all shutdowns Pulse tracked globally for the year.
Bangladesh is experiencing slightly slower Internet connectivity to international hosted services due to an outage to one of the two submarine cables connecting the country.
In 2023, partially protected network routes nearly doubled from 44% to 81%, while fully protected network routes doubles from 9% to 18%.
Despite the critical importance of submarine cables, we have a limited understanding of how their failures affect end-to-end Internet connectivity.