Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoIran’s internet blackout left people in the dark. How does a country shut down the internet?theconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1128arrow-down16
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minus-squareConfused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoAren’t most cell tower functions just backhauled to the Internet these days, anyway?
minus-squareA_norny_mousse@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-26 months agoI was wondering the same actually: Wouldn’t hard shutting down the internet shut down mobile communications as well. Of course a soft shutdown would allow for filtering that out. I wonder which one Iran chose.
Aren’t most cell tower functions just backhauled to the Internet these days, anyway?
I was wondering the same actually:
Wouldn’t hard shutting down the internet shut down mobile communications as well. Of course a soft shutdown would allow for filtering that out. I wonder which one Iran chose.