Topic: Internet shutdowns by governments are bad for corporate marketing (Read 1046 times)

Internet connection is very important in our daily lives, especially now that not only workers or businesses depends on it but also our children who study at home through online study. The government should not do this because through the internet, people can find a solution to earn money and live and no longer have to rely on help from them.

There was a brief total internet shutdown over here today that lasted for a few hours. All of the ISPs cut off internet access for some reason and then restored it back. It reminded me of the time mobile internet access was shut down for almost three months last year. Obviously they didn't touch broadband lines so that they didn't disrupt company operations and bring economic selling to a halt. But I have a reason to believe that civilians deprived of internet access is dangerous for companies trying to make a profit.

In third-world countries, companies rely on social media platforms like Facebook for their marketing, advertising and to attract new customers. By shutting off internet access, you are effectively drying up their revenue streams, which cannot continue for too long (like for the course of months), or all of them will start reporting losses. Nearly all people here use 4G or 3G internet on their SIM cards, and not a router. So the more people using mobile internet in a country, the more drastic the consequences of an internet shutdown are for companies.

Other countries appear to be importing Sudan's internet shutdown techniques (India, Ethiopia) but surely they have to know that by shutting down the internet, they are reducing company sales. Sure the company's operations themselves aren't affected, but how are they supposed to sustain them without sales?

Of course a company that ships physical goods isn't affected by an internet shutdown, but they still lose their social media marketing abilities, because no one can read them.

Seriously though, does anyone happen to know the cause for the loss of internet today?

Not only to the corporate marketing, the entire network gets disturbed. Right now from small scale business to the corporate network each and everything is interconnected with the internet. Even small stores now have got their own QR code through which payments in digital form is possible. These days every form of education is happening through online classes. Upon the same shutdowns affect not only the corporate marketing, but has impact over everything.

Each and everything is now associated with internet, when there is some issue with internet automatically big loss is being experienced by every functional sector. In my country internet shutdowns takes place at times of protest, because the gathering of people were organised through the social media platforms. Corporate marketing generate majority of the revenue through the firms.

I think it's just a problem and carriers are working on it. No country has ever turned down the opportunity to be marketed and thrived in cyberspace. The Internet is a real opportunity and they will take advantage of it, not prevent businesses from accessing it.

Internet isn't owned by one government its spreads in every region and controlled by ISPs.
There's no chance for the government to take the internet down since they also use it, All the media is connected with the internet and they spread the government's update and news to the peoples.
The Internet can be down for some moments or seconds but there's no way to take down forever.
Corporations might be affected highly because everything is now associated with the internet

The interruption for most countries that are using the service of those corporations that are operating their cable lines under the ocean or what we call the submarine communications cables have gone through an upgrade or repair.

Before the Internet wasn't a necessary part of our lives but now, a repair will affect most connected businesses and individuals and can lose much money by a single interruption.

If a government should take down the internet , that’s their own loss because the country or region where the internet was shut down is going to be affected badly. There are lots of businesses these days that rely on internet to carry out their activities and communicate with their staff and customers, so imagine the government shutting down the internet, these type of businesses are going to be affected as there will be a lack of communication.

Moreover, another thing we have to put into consideration is the fact that most Businesses these days, even the small stores are online doing their business, so if you should do such a thing, it’s going to have a negative impact since these stores are going to be losing money.

Internet is an important part of our lives, we can admit or deny that, but it's a fact! Now many people and many business relays on this internet, and to not go off-topic here but that can become serious addiction! Now imagine the addict without his drug?! Shutting down the internet will have the same effects on some people! Maybe many people, I am not sure.

Not only the corporate marketing is affected. In my country, even students and teachers are badly affected. Due to face to face meeting is prohibited this time in order to less exposure to the virus, online classes are everywhere. Online classes are made so that students will not be left behind or will continuously earn even in this kind of situation. At this point in time, so much people make the internet a pass time, or center of business especially browsing on facebook. Internet plays a very important role during this time but even though our Government has no plan of shutting down the internet, internet connection is already poor which sometimes you may feel that it already shutdown because it can't load anything.

Of course it's detrimental--or dangerous as you put it--to any business that relies on the internet for sales.  This happened in Sudan?  I don't know what kind of internet providers you guys have over there, or even what your government is like, so there's no way for me to comment on why a thing like that would happen to your citizens.  But that's really messed up if you ask me.

But I have a reason to believe that civilians deprived of internet access is dangerous for companies trying to make a profit.

You do realize that this is last years that anyone can have a right to close down your internet. Google, tesla, facebook and basically all high level tech companies are working together in a tink tank type of situation (and fairly developed already) to provide internet to whole world without connection.

You do realize that this is last years that anyone can have a right to close down your internet. Google, tesla, facebook and basically all high level tech companies are working together in a tink tank type of situation (and fairly developed already) to provide internet to whole world without connection.

They are basically building a whole line of satellites that would provide the same exact internet to everyone in the world, they also have the greatest servers in the world without a doubt, so simply put they will just provide the fastest available internet with no limitations to everywhere in the world equally and it will be incredibly cheap as well. Obviously there is a cost when you build something like that but when you provide it to whole world it gets a lot more profitable, plus they like selling ads to you, so your internet could come with ads and for free as well, who knows?

The world is going digital already even the central bank, so it's not right to shut down the internet in any reason.
Internet has become vital now as it's use everywhere and every activities, name it, online selling, online job and even online financial transaction.

Government should be sued if they'll do that.

You're asking a strange question because, for instance, I can't recall a case in the EU where the Internet was shut down. It would paralyze the banking system because it wuold stop ATMs and electronic payments and as a result paralyze the country. Even politicians know they'd be affected by not being able to pay for a hotel room or a rented car with their card, unable to buy plane tickets and fly home to their families. There's not going to be any Internet shutdown in any country that isn't run by a crazy regime like North Korea or Venezuela.

I am sure the government will not shutdown the internet, because human activities are currently very dependent on the internet.
So the impact will be very bad without the internet, not only corporations will be affected if the internet is shut down. However,
the government will also be affected, because current government activities also require the internet.

You're asking a strange question because, for instance, I can't recall a case in the EU where the Internet was shut down. It would paralyze the banking system because it wuold stop ATMs and electronic payments and as a result paralyze the country. Even politicians know they'd be affected by not being able to pay for a hotel room or a rented car with their card, unable to buy plane tickets and fly home to their families. There's not going to be any Internet shutdown in any country that isn't run by a crazy regime like North Korea or Venezuela.

Government don't shutdown the internet on the whole country, they are doing it in the particular region right? So not much of the economic activities are going to get affected and internet has been shutdown normally to stop the communication between local people and outside people so no one other than people there knows exactly what is happening and this is normally implemented in tension between military and locals.

The question is if the government are turning it off intentionally?

Well it good have some benefits, but we are talking about the net effects for companies and it could mean loss of millions of dollars. Just like the days when we have power crisis, electricity is on a rotation and brown out are more frequent to save it. And since everyone today are connection, specially in this pandemic wherein schools are done online, it has a drastic effect even for a minute if internet is shutdown.

Let's be honest - they turn off the Internet not to harm companies and businesses, but for completely different reasons.
A striking example in today's world life is Belarus, where the Internet was turned off during mass protests against the elections.

The only benefits recipients of disabling the Internet is  the government. Without the Internet, the vast majority of communication channels are lost, which can block the communication of protesters/terrorists/criminals in order to effectively counter them.
Well, or another benefit - when you turn off the Internet on the territory of combat operations to disrupt the coordination of the enemy. But this is a completely military thing, we will not touch them.

If those people are having struggles when there is internet shutdown, how much more to those companies who cannot continue to generate their sales because there is no internet access. Having an  internet shutdown even just for few hours is really a big loss for marketing companies even for those individuals who are making a living through internet connections.

....PLDT/Smart will conduct emergency maintenance for the improvement of their service at the Asian American Gateway (AAG), one of PLDT’s international cable systems. Their maintenance has nothing to do with the internet shutdown by the government because the internet is one of the necessities in our country (it's obv.).

The internet shutdown in different aspects is a big problem. Even though simple maintenance will give a huge problem especially online classes.

Before internet, people have been doing business and there are even companies that have survived for centuries and during those dark days, that was when they witnessed some of their massive growth. Internet comes with its own advantage but it does not means that without it, people wont still find a way to transact and do business with one another. Now when government shut down the internet, while businesses whose existence relied on that, they would surely have their reason for doing that and that is what the citizens needs to find out whether their reasons are valid or not.

I don't know if this is just a coincidence but one of the most popular ISP here in our country, PLDT/Smart is notifying their costumers for their maintenance starting tomorrow until the end of the month. Schools that are affected are already notifying the students about this to stop their online classes until the maintenance are done. Just how bad will be the effect of this maintenance to big companies and corporations that uses their services.

What the fuck?? Who the hell turns off the entire country's mobile internet infrastructure just to stop students from cheating in exams? It's so stupid, they're hurting everyone else who uses the internet.

The internet shutdown can bring sadness to people because many people have online works that depend on the internet. And if somehow, in his country, the internet is not online, it will make him can not work as usual. The internet has now become a primary thing for people, especially for the young generation who always connect to the internet. They will not be able to do many things, especially for playing games which many young generations did.

I am sure there a lot more downsides to internet shutdown compared to corporate marketing. I mean sure corporations do not do marketing as much because there are no people online and that means bad for business and I agree that it is bad for business and when it is bad for business those companies make less profit and when they make less profit they hire less people and pay less taxes and eventually one internet shutdown becomes something huge.

However we are talking about something bigger, internet is something so huge that it allows people to connect to each other all around the world, when you shut that down you are basically cutting ties with the world at this day and age so it could potentially have stuff that are way bigger than just companies not doing marketing.

Before internet, people have been doing business and there are even companies that have survived for centuries and during those dark days, that was when they witnessed some of their massive growth. Internet comes with its own advantage but it does not means that without it, people wont still find a way to transact and do business with one another. Now when government shut down the internet, while businesses whose existence relied on that, they would surely have their reason for doing that and that is what the citizens needs to find out whether their reasons are valid or not.

There was a brief total internet shutdown over here today that lasted for a few hours. All of the ISPs cut off internet access for some reason and then restored it back. It reminded me of the time mobile internet access was shut down for almost three months last year. Obviously they didn't touch broadband lines so that they didn't disrupt company operations and bring economic selling to a halt. But I have a reason to believe that civilians deprived of internet access is dangerous for companies trying to make a profit.

In third-world countries, companies rely on social media platforms like Facebook for their marketing, advertising and to attract new customers. By shutting off internet access, you are effectively drying up their revenue streams, which cannot continue for too long (like for the course of months), or all of them will start reporting losses. Nearly all people here use 4G or 3G internet on their SIM cards, and not a router. So the more people using mobile internet in a country, the more drastic the consequences of an internet shutdown are for companies.

Other countries appear to be importing Sudan's internet shutdown techniques (India, Ethiopia) but surely they have to know that by shutting down the internet, they are reducing company sales. Sure the company's operations themselves aren't affected, but how are they supposed to sustain them without sales?

Of course a company that ships physical goods isn't affected by an internet shutdown, but they still lose their social media marketing abilities, because no one can read them.

Seriously though, does anyone happen to know the cause for the loss of internet today?

I have a reason to believe that civilians deprived of internet access is dangerous for companies trying to make a profit.

Other countries appear to be importing Sudan's internet shutdown techniques

This kind of thing have not happened in my country before. But the thought of a government shutting down internet, mehn that’s really a dumb thing to do; why would they be shutting down the internet, for what reason exactly? In our world today most of the things that we are doing has to do with internet.

There are some companies like online shopping platforms like Amazon that relies completely on the internet, because without the and if people don’t have access to the internet there is no way that these companies are going to make any sale. And that company might be one that’s contributing well to the GDP of the country. It’s not a good thing to shut down internet.

It is the season for university admission exams in Sudan, and its authorities have taken an unusual step to counter the events of cheating.

Sudan’s government has ordered its mobile network providers to turn off cellular data during the three hours of tests, those of which have already started and will go on till the 24th of September. This will ensure a level playing ground for every student, and the entries will be entirely based on merit.

Sudan’s government has been using this technique to counter any protests against its administrative authorities, which helps them reduce the co-ordination between protesters and its wide-spread propaganda on social media. However, the South African country is using the same methodology for preventing happenings of cheating in entry exams for the very first time.

This cycle for disrupting the cellular data all across the country started on the 16th of September. The network providers began to get tons of complaints in no time, upon which they let people know that they are following state orders. Only then the public got to understand why they don’t have internet access despite paying their bills.

Three years ago, Sudanese authorities had to re-conduct entry exams due to extensive cheating as the paper got leaked online. It is the pretty much reason why they had to take such a step during exams going on these days.

Mobile data for around 13 million users get turned off from 8 am-11 am, leaving them isolated from the world-wide-web during this period. However, essential institution’s operations aren’t disrupted as they are backed by cable internet connections such as government institutions, money exchanges, and banks.

There are numerous ways to prevent cheating in exams that you might have heard of, but this one is so far the most extreme way to stop such happenings.

never experience a loss on internet for a long time but internet can be unavailable here if the networks are conducting a maintenance or if there s something wrong like thier towers were damage by narural events but im lucky because network operators here can respond quickly and problem dont take long enough like what happened on you case  which took 3 months , cant imagine my life like that if i was on your situation . however internet here is slow and even got slower and i suspect this is because of pandemic .

Before internet, people have been doing business and there are even companies that have survived for centuries and during those dark days, that was when they witnessed some of their massive growth. Internet comes with its own advantage but it does not means that without it, people wont still find a way to transact and do business with one another.

Now when government shut down the internet, while businesses whose existence relied on that, they would surely have their reason for doing that and that is what the citizens needs to find out whether their reasons are valid or not.

Of course a company that ships physical goods isn't affected by an internet shutdown, but they still lose their social media marketing abilities, because no one can read them.

Seriously though, does anyone happen to know the cause for the loss of internet today?

Government don't shutdown the internet on the whole country, they are doing it in the particular region right? So not much of the economic activities are going to get affected

Imagine if you are a bounty hunter or airdropper or even a day trader from Belarus who failed to meet the deadline in submitting entries, etc., due to the government’s internet shutdown.

There was a brief total internet shutdown over here today that lasted for a few hours. All of the ISPs cut off internet access for some reason and then restored it back. It reminded me of the time mobile internet access was shut down for almost three months last year. Obviously they didn't touch broadband lines so that they didn't disrupt company operations and bring economic selling to a halt. But I have a reason to believe that civilians deprived of internet access is dangerous for companies trying to make a profit.

In third-world countries, companies rely on social media platforms like Facebook for their marketing, advertising and to attract new customers. By shutting off internet access, you are effectively drying up their revenue streams, which cannot continue for too long (like for the course of months), or all of them will start reporting losses. Nearly all people here use 4G or 3G internet on their SIM cards, and not a router. So the more people using mobile internet in a country, the more drastic the consequences of an internet shutdown are for companies.

Other countries appear to be importing Sudan's internet shutdown techniques (India, Ethiopia) but surely they have to know that by shutting down the internet, they are reducing company sales. Sure the company's operations themselves aren't affected, but how are they supposed to sustain them without sales?

Of course a company that ships physical goods isn't affected by an internet shutdown, but they still lose their social media marketing abilities, because no one can read them.

Seriously though, does anyone happen to know the cause for the loss of internet today?

Before internet, people have been doing business and there are even companies that have survived for centuries and during those dark days, that was when they witnessed some of their massive growth. Internet comes with its own advantage but it does not means that without it, people wont still find a way to transact and do business with one another. Now when government shut down the internet, while businesses whose existence relied on that, they would surely have their reason for doing that and that is what the citizens needs to find out whether their reasons are valid or not.

Government don't shutdown the internet on the whole country, they are doing it in the particular region right?

The Cost of Shutdown tool developed by Netblocks and the Internet Society estimates that five days of a total Internet shutdown in Sudan — which the country is currently experiencing — will result in an accumulated economic loss of $228,924,285.