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An Internet shutdown is an intentional disruption of Internet or electronic communications, rendering them inaccessible or effectively unusable, for a specific population or within a location, often to exert control over the flow of information.| Internet Society Pulse
A new game-theoretic model shows that consumer benefits peak at a sweet spot in the number of firms that depends on market size, spectrum, investment efficiency, and user usage.| Pulse Blog
While LEO satellite services are promising, they result in trade-offs for end users and rural/remote communities.| Pulse Blog
Effective measurement of rural Internet performance is a prerequisite for diagnosing gaps, guiding investments, and shaping inclusive policy.| Pulse Blog
Open source software underpin digital payment systems, government platforms, and emergency coordination systems.| Pulse Blog
Under-connected families have access to the Internet; they just can’t rely on having it when needed.| Pulse Blog
Measurements are only as powerful as the reforms they bring.| Pulse Blog
Internet fragmentation has been conceived of too narrowly–as have the tools that might combat it.| Pulse Blog
Nepal’s Internet users are experiencing disrupted Internet connectivity and access to web services.| Pulse Blog
Internet Society Chapters have been collaborating with each other and coordinating with local stakeholders to advance DNSSEC adoption across Africa.| Pulse Blog
IPv6 proponents can learn from the success of HTTPS adoption, which was not driven by education but by making the new technology the “natural, obvious, easy choice.| Pulse Blog
Encouraging market entry and reducing barriers can lead to more competitive, fair, and accessible telecom markets.| Pulse Blog
Collaboration is paramount to understanding the underlying context that is holding back Internet development.| Pulse Blog
A new study of 58 countries shows that many online government services are served and routed via foreign networks and have low HTTPS encryption adoption rates.| Pulse Blog
Share your novel Internet measurement visualizations, images, animations, and interactive artifacts.| Pulse Blog
By developing better measurement tools and stronger incentives for disclosure, Japan can shift from a competition based on theoretical claims to one based on real, verified quality.| Pulse Blog
Measuring application latency instead of Internet speed offers a better understanding of today’s Internet user experience.| Pulse Blog
Many community networks in Kenya are deploying fiber as a means to sustain their growing user base, develop resilience against climate challenges, and attract new supporters.| Pulse Blog
Indigenous Internet measurement systems are critical for assessing and validating the current strengths and weaknesses of local Internet connected networks.| Pulse Blog
New changes to US broadband assistance programs may unintentionally favor certain technologies, such as fixed wireless or LEO satellite Internet services.| Pulse Blog
Countries with more news consumers experimenting with AI tools do not consistently have the most resilient Internet.| Pulse Blog
Africa’s burgeoning digital economy requires reliable Internet to continue its rapid growth.| Pulse Blog
New study characterizes the stability of latency between end users and content delivery network (CDN) edge servers, which are critical infrastructure for delivering content to most Internet users.| Pulse Blog
An hour-long outage of one of the most popular global Domain Name System (DNS) services highlighted the need for greater diversity of this critical Internet infrastructure.| Pulse Blog
The Internet Society organized an Open Fibre Data Standard workshop in Geneva, Switzerland recently.| Pulse Blog
New findings challenge the assumption that digital divides disappear once basic broadband infrastructure is widely available.| Pulse Blog
Petabit subsea cables, sensing technologies, and aging fleets, oh my.| Pulse Blog
A fire in a major Internet hub in Cairo has significantly disrupted multiple major Internet service providers (ISPs) in the country.| Pulse Blog
168 countries now have DNSSEC-enabled ccTLDs.| Pulse Blog
OneWeb’s lack of Inter-Satellite Links impairs its seamless handover performance.| Pulse Blog
Last year’s faulty CrowdStrike update had a nuanced impact on the Internet traffic of various organizations and sectors.| Pulse Blog
Eight countries have increased their IPv6 adoption rate to above 50% in the past 12 months.| Pulse Blog
India needs resilient, decentralized, and crisis-ready digital infrastructure to allow for modern governance.| Pulse Blog
Iraq, Myanmar, and Venezuela have seen significant increases in their market competition since 2023.| Pulse Blog
The Tongan Internet community is looking towards other countries to improve its Internet development and resilience in the face of natural and geographic challenges.| Pulse Blog
Kazakhstan and the rest of Central Asia are dependent on Internet connectivity from Russia.| Pulse Blog
Two recent events in Bangkok emphasize the worth of democratizing access to measurement tools and fostering local capacity for data-driven advocacy.| Pulse Blog
Congratulations to the three fellows set to explore critical technical challenges and opportunities in the evolving IPv6 landscape.| Pulse Blog
Many African nations have made tremendous progress with their IPv6 deployments over the last few years.| Pulse Blog
Multiple directories collate information about IXPs and networks that peer at them.| Pulse Blog
Journalists are at the forefront of exposing Internet challenges and advocating for change.| Pulse Blog
Governments increasingly turn to DNS-level blocking interventions because they’re easy to implement.| Pulse Blog
Healthy competition among Internet Service Providers can increase consumer choice, reduce prices, and foster innovation, efficiency, quality, and resilience.| Pulse Blog
Shutting down the Internet during conflict and tension jeopardizes people’s safety and access to information.| Pulse Blog
Iraqi officials today ordered the first Internet shutdown for 2025 as national school exams start.| Pulse Blog
Countries in Africa and Asia saw the biggest gains in Internet penetration between 2022 and 2023.| Pulse Blog
Burkina Faso is the 32nd African country to deploy DNSSEC at its country code Top-Level Domain.| Pulse Blog
Jamaica’s Internet was the 10th most resilient in the Caribbean and 120th globally as of 2023.| Pulse Blog
The increasing misuse of Internet shutdown powers highlights the urgent need for stricter enforcement of legal safeguards.| Pulse Blog
The Internet Society is conducting an impact assessment to evaluate the potential applications of Resource Public Key Infrastructure Signed Checklists.| Pulse Blog
Understanding electricity resilience and reliability is critical when measuring and developing Internet resilience.| Pulse Blog
International sanctions targeting Iran’s technological sector restrict Iran’s participation in the global economy, hinder innovation, and obstruct its technological infrastructure.| Pulse Blog
IXPs’ unique vantage points can provide local and regional level availability and performance insights that public international measurement projects cannot measure as accurately.| Pulse Blog
Greece, Bulgaria, and Czechia benefit far more from cloud edge infrastructure, achieving >26% network performance improvements.| Pulse Blog
Local studies and Indigenous measurement systems provide greater context on the true resilience of a country’s Internet.| Pulse Blog
By systematically measuring the DNS, we can improve our understanding of the Internet, find vulnerabilities, and provide data for informed decision-making.| Pulse Blog
Community-driven IXPs must focus on demonstrating value to ensure future stability.| Pulse Blog
Internet access should not be weaponized or restricted during emergencies—it should be a relief, coordination, and rebuilding tool.| Pulse Blog
Understanding the resilience of critical Internet infrastructure can help landlocked and other countries reliant on terrestrial fibre connections.| Pulse Blog
Internet standards need to provide clearer and rigorous guidelines to overcome middlebox modifications.| Pulse Blog
See how the Internet shutdown events following the 2025 Mozambique general election played out.| Pulse Blog
Internet resilience requires taking a holistic view of the many components and actors that enable the Internet.| Pulse Blog
Studying changes in the deployment of content delivery networks and content providers helps uncover trends in how these key players adapt to shifts in the modern Internet ecosystem.| Pulse Blog
Pulse tracked seven election-related Internet shutdowns in 2024, the most we’ve ever tracked.| Pulse Blog
Recently we added Internet Users by Gender to the Pulse Country Reports.| Pulse Blog
The broader implications of Internet shutdowns and service blocking in India go beyond isolated incidents in specific regions.| Pulse Blog
Nearly 1,200 networks and vendors are committed to making the global routing infrastructure more robust and secure.| Pulse Blog
The EU Digitalisation dashboard presents more than 20 critical technical and socio-economic ICT indicators.| Pulse Blog
The Advanced Internet Operations Research in India Internet Measurement Network (AIORI-IMN) aims to evaluate and enhance Internet operations across India.| Pulse Blog
We’re please to announce the inaugural cohort of Pulse Research Fellows.| Pulse Blog
Check out the latest improvements to the Pulse Country Reports.| Pulse Blog
The Internet Yellow Pages (IYP) integrates more than 50 measurement datasets to help users analyze Internet topologies.| Pulse Blog
Join us in Malaysia on 24 February for the first face-to-face Pulse Internet Measurement Forum.| Pulse Blog
RouteViews collects real-time information about the global routing system from the perspectives of several different backbones and locations around the Internet.| Pulse Blog
Stay up-to-date on all changes to the Pulse site via the new Release Notes section.| Pulse Blog
The difference in scale between IPv4 and IPv6 is so vast that it’s difficult to represent clearly. Here’s one way to visualize it.| Pulse Blog
Root server co-location is prevalent but mostly low, with ∼70% of vantage points observing co-location of at least two servers globally.| Pulse Blog
Exam-related Internet shutdowns increased from 75 to 83 from 2023 to 2024 despite the efforts of the #NoExamShutdown campaign.| Pulse Blog
Six of the top-third African countries for GDP per capita growth between 2014-2022 are among the bottom-third African countries for Internet usage growth during the same time.| Pulse Blog
National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) globally are investing in new strategies to ensure seamless, reliable, and resilient connectivity for researchers, educators, and students.| Pulse Blog
GlobalSign’s growing popularity among the top 1,000 most popular websites as the preferred SSL certificate authority has changed the global balance of market concentration.| Pulse Blog
Internet Exchange Points offer a critical vantage point of the Internet’s stability, security, and efficiency at a local level.| Pulse Blog
In the spirit of annual reviews, we thought we’d share with you a few insights into how you and others have been using Pulse in 2024.| Pulse Blog
Internet poverty in Asia has decreased from 252 million in 2023 to 166 million in 2024, led by India and Indonesia.| Pulse Blog
The 2024 Pulse Research Fellows and research partners have been busy this year improving our understanding of the Internet.| Pulse Blog
Guam’s newest IXP seeks to attract more content delivery networks, which would provide more cached content to the country and the region.| Pulse Blog
Study shows that 62% of government URLs worldwide are hosted by third-party providers.| Pulse Blog
A Pulse Research Fellow has developed a new Internet shutdown tracking system that retrieves open-source, API data from several sources to provide higher resolution of Internet traffic measurements, including during anomalies.| Pulse Blog
New study shows how spatial analysis can turn scattered crowdsourced Internet performance data into a cohesive regional map.| Pulse Blog
Are you interested in Internet measurements and research and have a project or tool in mind that contributes to upholding an open, globally-connected, secure, and trustworthy Internet?| Pulse Blog
Join us for the 2024 Pulse Research Review, happening online on 11 December 2024.| Pulse Blog
Pakistan authorities have blocked free VPN services, requiring Internet users to register to use select paid services.| Pulse Blog
In Iran, Internet-based sanctions are blocking access to critical cloud services and Internet technologies that significantly improve speed, security, and performance.| Pulse Blog
The narrative of the story should highlight the resilience of subsea cables and the Internet as a whole to continue working despite these and other faults.| Pulse Blog
Study finds that more than 40% of government-funded broadband supported premises are not being served by subsidized Internet service providers.| Pulse Blog
We’ve updated the Pulse Internet Resilience Index to include 17 new countries and are working on a historical feature to allow you to track metrics since 2019.| Pulse Blog
Luxembourg has one of the highest levels of overall Internet resilience in Western Europe and one of the highest globally when accounting for population size.| Pulse Blog
The Universal Service Fund’s current funding model needs to align with its current usage with Internet users subsidizing Internet deployment.| Pulse Blog
Alternative networks, or altnets, have transformed the UK’s broadband market and improved access and performance, giving consumers greater choice.| Pulse Blog
