Thank you, Jose and Sylvia, Siva, Ukraine really has more than 100 independent ISPs, and there is no one "button" to turn-off the Internet in a country (and there were no such attempts). We met some temporal or local blackouts , but everything was restored quickly. More over, on Maidan our IT-namet (IT community) created space of secured and stable Wi-Fi (and even common citizens opened their Wi-Fi to everybody). Nevertheless, it was repeatedly said: in case of serious problems with Internet or mobile - go to the streets or central square (Maidan). On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn@gmail.com>wrote:
Oksana,
It is interesting to note from the Washington Post article that "It is served by many ISPs with many independent terrestrial connections to neighboring countries. Due to this, it would be difficult to have a national blackout in a place like Ukraine." Perhaps in Ukraine, the ISP have a certain degree of independence, sufficient for them to hold on, despite political directives, if any. It is also possible that anyone who has considered a National blackout has also considered the unpredictable outcome of such a shutdown, that of wider and more intense protests resulting from a shutdown of the Internet infrastructure. Someone from Egypt was talking about such an effect at the European Summer School 2009, that people, who were otherwise not part of protests, came out to the streets when the Internet was shut down, so the Authorities restored the Internet :) Could that be one of the reasons why Internet is not blocked in Ukraine?
Sivasubramanian M
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Oksana Prykhodko <sana.pryhod@gmail.com
wrote:
Dear all,
I am sorry for any off-topick or wrong-doing. I received so many questions and letters of support, that I decided to send you these two excellent materials in English regarding situation in Ukraine.
The first one is the official information of US Embassy in Moscow, and the second one is the article in Washington Post on Internet access in Ukraine and Crimea.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/03/03/ukraine-is-in-t...
And once again - I am safe, thank you all very-very much!
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