MIAMI, United States.- Several Cuban users reported this Wednesday night an Internet outage on the island. The information was confirmed by specialized pages, however, the state-owned Cuban Telecommunications Company SA (ETECSA) has not mentioned the incident or offered explanations.
“A few minutes ago several ETECSA clients reported an interruption of the Internet service in Cuba. According to the Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA) project, between 10:20 p.m. and 10:50 p.m. (local time), internet traffic decreased considerably on the island,” he denounced. YuccaByte on the social network Twitter.
The independent media, specialized in activism and new technologies, showed as part of a thread on the platform the different sites that warned of the Internet cut.
Cloudflare Radar showed that internet traffic decreased in Cuba between 10 and 11 p.m.
NetBlocks confirmed the information. “Note: Cuba has experienced a brief partial interruption of the Internet, and users reported difficulties connecting during the incident that affected the state monopoly provider ETECSA,” the observatory wrote on Twitter.
ETECSA, the only company that offers Internet and telephone services in Cuba, is regularly accused of cutting off access to the web at the behest of the Castro regime, with the aim of silencing dissenting voices and stopping calls for anti-government demonstrations.
Internet service was also interrupted on July 14 after dozens of people took to the streets in the municipality of Los Palacios, Pinar del Río, to protest against the government and demand an end to the blackouts.
That day, after 12 midnight, and on July 15, the Internet monitoring service Outage Alerts recorded a drop in traffic in the country that lasted approximately one hour.
According to the data journalism project Inventory, Cuban users reported difficulties accessing the service during that time in municipalities of Havana such as Guanabacoa, Plaza de la Revolución, Diez de Octubre, Playa; and in the cities of Holguín, Matanzas, Varadero, Cienfuegos and Santa Clara.
cloudflare it also reported an “internet outage observed in Cuba amid reported anti-government protests in Los Palacios and Pinar del Río.”
Doug Madory, a computer scientist and director of Internet Analytics at Kentikinc, said then in Twitter: “Internet traffic to Cuba stopped at 04:55 – 05:35 UTC (10:55 – 11:35 pm local time) last night, following protests in several cities. A year ago this week, Cubans staged the largest anti-government protests in history. The Cuban government responded with Internet outages.”
During the early hours of July 15, social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube were limited in Cuba, so activists recommended the use of VPNs like Psiphon.
José Raúl Gallego According to a Cuban investigative journalist and academic, he recently denounced that “the dictatorship (…) resorts to Internet cut-offs to prevent the spread of social protest, because they know that people cannot take it anymore and that at any moment they will come back. to go out into the streets.”
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