"Across 2025 as a whole, the company tracked more than 180 significant disruptions, with the final quarter dominated by cable damage, power problems, and routine operational failures. There was just one confirmed government-directed shutdown during the period. Tanzania saw a sharp drop in internet traffic on October 29 as violent protests broke out during the country's presidential election, with traffic falling by more than 90 percent. Traffic returned briefly before declining again, and routing data pointed to throttling rather than a clean shutdown."
"Most of the quarter's disruption, however, had nothing to do with politics. Cable cuts continued to do what they always do. In Haiti, Digicel was hit twice after international fiber was severed, sending traffic on its network close to zero before repairs were completed. Damage to the PEACE cable disrupted international connectivity for Pakistan, while faults on the West Africa Cable System caused repeated outages across Cameroon and nearby countries."
"Electricity failures proved just as effective at knocking the internet sideways. The Dominican Republic lost a big chunk of its internet traffic after a transmission line outage spiralled into a nationwide blackout. Kenya ran into its own problems after a fault on the regional grid link with Uganda, leaving connectivity sluggish for hours even as the lights came back on."
Cloudflare's calendar Q4 snapshot recorded widespread connectivity disruptions driven by cut cables, power outages, bad weather, military strikes, and operational failures. Across 2025 the company tracked more than 180 significant disruptions, with the final quarter dominated by cable damage, power problems, and routine operational failures. Only one confirmed government-directed shutdown occurred; Tanzania experienced a more than 90 percent traffic drop around October 29 tied to election-related protests and signs of throttling. Cable cuts hit Haiti, Pakistan and West Africa; electricity failures caused major outages in the Dominican Republic and slowed connectivity in Kenya. Armed conflict damaged energy infrastructure and reduced local internet availability.
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