The shutdown began on 18 July 2024, enforcing a total blackout until 23 July followed by social media restrictions through the end of the month. Monitors confirmed the outage was caused by access restrictions rather than broken physical infrastructure. This failure stranded local platforms that depend on foreign payment systems and external cloud routing. Furthermore, the incident emphasized broader regional risks, as nations like Bangladesh and India rely heavily on concentrated submarine landing sites and narrow border paths.
Key points
Digital networks must eliminate foreign dependencies like remote DNS resolvers and APIs t…: Digital networks must eliminate foreign dependencies like remote DNS resolvers and APIs to keep domestic services operational during blackouts.
Relying on a small number of submarine cable links and terrestrial routes creates severe…: Relying on a small number of submarine cable links and terrestrial routes creates severe systemic risks for national connectivity.
Regional telecommunications strategies require decentralized geographic landing points to…: Regional telecommunications strategies require decentralized geographic landing points to protect against concentrated structural points of failure.
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In the days after the Bangladesh Internet shutdown began on 18 July 2024, I was at home, and nothing worked. Messages wouldn’t send. Websites wouldn’t open. Every app I normally relied on just sat there doing nothing. The only thing that still worked was an ordinary phone call, so that’s what I used. But my business had stopped. I couldn’t reach my clients, and I had no way to tell them why.
I thought about those days again when I read the INNOG 9 report from APNIC 62. One of the talks, by Sumon Ahmed Sabir of Fibre@Home, was about exactly this: What happens when local networks keep running but the links to the outside world disappear?
You can read Sumon’s slides yourself. Here is what stuck with me, and why I think it matters for Bangladesh and the rest of South Asia.
What happened to connectivity in July 2024
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