“Internet traffic falling by approximately 80 percent within the next few hours in Spain, and up to 90 percent in Portugal.”
The Q2 internet outage report reads like a catalog of ways governments and infrastructure can fail simultaneously. Iraq shut down the internet during exam periods. Iran cut access after nuclear site attacks. Spain’s power outage wiped out 80 percent of its internet traffic in hours. Haiti lost connectivity entirely from damaged land cables. And several major outages across Southeast Asia still have no official explanation at all. The global internet is far more fragile than anyone running a business on it wants to admit.