MOSCOW, May 8 (RIA Novosti) – Internet access was restored in Syria on Wednesday after the country had been cut off from the worldwide web for almost 24 hours, the SANA state-controlled news agency reported.
The service was restored after a faulty optical fiber cable was reportedly fixed.
Global network traffic monitoring company Renesys reported that Syria was back online at 14:13 GMT, which represents a 19½-hour blackout, less than half the duration of the country’s last Internet outage in November.
In that incident, the opposition in Syria, which has been in the throes of a civil war for the past two years, blamed President Bashar Assad’s government for the outage, but the government denied the accusations.
