{"id":1848,"date":"2017-07-10T23:23:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microdium.net\/public\/bci-internet-outage-costing-somalia-10-million-each-day\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T23:23:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:23:13","slug":"bci-internet-outage-costing-somalia-10-million-each-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/2017\/07\/10\/bci-internet-outage-costing-somalia-10-million-each-day\/","title":{"rendered":"BCI: Internet outage costing Somalia $10 million each day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An ongoing internet outage in Somalia is costing the country $10m (\u00a37.7m) each day, and sparking anger across the affected central and southern parts of the country, including the capital, Mogadishu. The outage is reported to have been caused by a commercial ship cutting an undersea fibre-optic cable more than two weeks ago, and is expected to go on for at least another week.<\/p>\n

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The post and telecommunications minister – Abdi Anshur Hassan –\u00a0told a press conference that Somalia has lost more than $130 million so far.<\/p>\n

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Internet service providers have since resorted to using satellite communications to provide access the internet, however this remedy was described as weak and unable to cope with the huge demand.<\/p>\n

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Internet outages are a major concern for organizations across the world with the\u00a0Business Continuity Institute\u2019s<\/a> latest\u00a0Horizon Scan Report<\/a> featuring it in third place on its list of threats.\u00a080% of respondents to a global survey expressing concern about the prospect of an outage occurring. In Sub-Saharan Africa it was in second place on both the list of concerns and the list of actual disruptions.<\/p>\n

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After more than 20 years of conflict, internet usage is low in Somalia, with just 1.6% of the population online in 2014, according to estimates by the International Telecommunication Union.<\/p>\n

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