Sentence examples for internet disconnection from inspiring English sources

Following the Syrian blackout in late 2012, Renesys, a consultancy that specialises in monitoring and mitigating risks to connectivity, created a map ranking every country's "risk of internet disconnection".

They found resilience has little to do with the presence or absence of jackbooted thugs: Belarus is at "significant risk" of internet disconnection, while China – which blacked out the entire province of Xinjiang for ten months in 2009 and 2010 – is rated at "low risk".

In the case of Belarus – the only country in Europe marked "at significant risk" of internet disconnection according to Renesys – "there is a single 'postcode', controlled by a state-owned telecom company, that connects to the rest of the world," says Graham-Cumming.

If you have more than 40 providers at your frontier, your country is likely to be extremely resistant to Internet disconnection.

The local portion of the model monitors patients in the event of internet disconnections or any other failure in the cloud system.

Not unlike SOPA, the U.K.'s antipiracy legislation, the Digital Economy Act, has a "three-strikes" system leading to Internet disconnections, but it's been put on hold for implementation until 2014.

However, frequent Internet disconnections are challenging.

(Internet obsession and disconnection is, of course, one of the story lines of "The Future").

But crackdowns and surveillance have intensified recently, particularly during periods of political unrest, when the authorities have caused internet slowdowns and disconnections, or jammed telephone lines.

"When a government shuts down the Internet, it shows the disconnection between the governing and the governed," Alec Ross, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's senior adviser for innovation, wrote in a Twitter post on Friday afternoon.

Few analysts expect it to result in more music purchases, or to result in large-scale disconnections of Internet users.