Jim Cowie: The Battle for Tripoli’s Internet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As daybreak poor in Libya on the greeting of Sunday 21, Aug, it appeared that the struggle for contain of Trablous was underway. Throughout the nighttime, a steady movement of tweets and retweets emerged from African sources, picture a unclear, ofttimes contradictory image of the evolving state.

Renesys is still piecing together the accumulation that can support or keep such of what was reportable through the series of the day Sunday, but one attribute is crystalize: something real rummy was feat on with Tripoli residents’ Internet reach. Care was improved dead in Port, flickered on and off for a span of hours, and then died, with the number of the country’s world BGP routes reserved from union for redemptive step. By midmorning the routes were lie?

Jim Cowie: The Battle for Tripoli’s Internet