Internet in Burma/Myanmar is very strictly controlled by the "government" (ie, the military junta who claims to be the government). From memory, all access runs via a single connection, which then feeds through a "firewall" which significantly restricts what can be accessed. However as you'd expect, many people - including most Internet cafes throughout the country - have worked out ways around this firewall. When I was there (~2.5 years ago) this generally consisted of using software like "Your-Freedom" (http://www.your-freedom.net/) which tunnel the traffic to somewhere else in the world - normally Europe. In less than a week the country will hold the first national elections in around 20 years. It's no secret that these elections will be a farce, and the "government" is seriously limiting (if not completely blocking) all foreign media access to the country during the election. So putting 2 and 2 together, my guess is that any Internet problems in Burma at the moment are completely deliberate on the part of the "government" in an effort to limit communication outside of the country. If that's the case, you can expect it to stay down for at least the next ~ 2 weeks, and possibly longer. (For those that are wondering, name change from "Burma" to "Myanmar" was made by the junta many years ago. As the governments of many countries around the world do not consider the junta to be the official government of the country, they do not recognize the change, and thus officially still use the old name of Burma. Other countries (including the US) do recognize the junta as the government of the country, and thus use the new name of Myanmar - or more correctly the "Republic of the Union of Myanmar") Scott. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:26 AM, virendra rode <virendra.rode@outages.org>wrote:

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Outages-discussion] National internet outage in Myanmar enters second week Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:26:40 -0500 From: Frank Bulk <frnkblk@iname.com> Reply-To: frnkblk@iname.com Organization: iName.com To: <outages-discussion@outages.org>

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world/national-internet-outage-in-myanma r-enters-second-week_100452986.html

Does anyone else have more information on this? How many international POPs are in that country?

Frank

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