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   Disasters, shutdowns, and cable damage galore - Cloudflare study reveals   
   what's really been behind all the recent Internet outages   
      
   Date:   
   Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:30:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   Cloudflares Q3 report reveals how government shutdowns, natural disasters,    
   and cable damage continue to cripple global internet connectivity worldwide.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   Cloudflares Q3 Internet Disruptions report paints a troubling picture of how   
   fragile global connectivity remains, even in an era of advanced networking    
   and sophisticated DDoS protection .    
      
   Between July and September 2025, the company tracked outages triggered by   
   events ranging from natural disasters and cyberattacks to government-imposed   
   restrictions and accidental cable damage.    
      
   Using data from its network that spans more than 330 cities across 125   
   countries, Cloudflare documented what it called a wide variety of known    
   causes behind widespread service interruptions.   
      
   Government orders remains one of the biggest culprits   
      
   Internet blackouts imposed by state authorities remain one of the most   
   frequent disruptions worldwide.    
      
   Iraq, Syria, and Sudan once again shut down online access during national    
   exam periods, a practice that has become routine in these regions.    
      
   Officials in Syria even claimed success in targeting organized exam cheating   
   networks, suggesting that such outages were part of a broader enforcement   
   strategy.    
      
   Elsewhere, Venezuela saw a more unusual case when provider SuperCable was   
   ordered offline after losing its license, cutting connectivity for thousands   
   of users in mid-August.    
      
   Cloudflare described these cases as consistent with previous patterns of   
   short, repeated, and localized restrictions.    
      
   The report shows how easily physical networks can fail by chance or neglect.    
   A stray bullet in Texas damaged a fiber line, causing a two-hour outage for   
   Spectrum users.    
      
   In the Dominican Republic and Angola, construction work severed cables,   
   halting connections for hours.    
      
   Similar problems appeared in Pakistan, Haiti, and the United Arab Emirates,   
   where simultaneous Red Sea cable cuts brought cross-country traffic to a   
   standstill.    
      
   Cloudflares findings suggest that no amount of routing optimization or   
   firewall management can offset the weaknesses of physical infrastructure once   
   it is damaged.    
      
   Natural and accidental disasters added to the quarters turmoil. In Egypt, a   
   fire at the Ramses Central Exchange cut off major providers such as Vodafone   
   and Orange.    
      
   An 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Russias Kamchatka Peninsula crippled regional   
   traffic almost instantly.    
      
   Even space-based services were affected. Starlink reported a global outage on   
   July 24 after failure of key internal software services that operate the core   
   network.    
      
   Global internet access remains vulnerable to a range of threats, from   
   cyberattacks to the limits of basic infrastructure. Outages can result from   
   the most unexpected sources.    
      
   Cloudflare noted that its summary is not an exhaustive or complete list, yet   
   the evidence points to one clear reality: the global network may be vast, yet   
   it remains breakable.    
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/disasters-shutdowns-and-cable-damage-galore-clou   
   dflare-study-reveals-whats-really-been-behind-all-the-recent-internet-outages   
      
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