{
  "id": "2021-02-nationwide-connectivity-cut",
  "title": "Nationwide mobile data and broadband cut following the February 2021 coup",
  "class": "national",
  "type": "full_blackout",
  "status": "unresolved",
  "date_start": "2021-02-06T00:00:00.000Z",
  "date_end": "2021-02-07T00:00:00.000Z",
  "end_date_confidence": "estimated",
  "resolution_note": "Maintainer research (internal research notes, 2026-07) found no single dated source stating \"nationwide mobile data fully restored on X.\" OONI's Mar 8, 2021 post states the initial total blackout (all internet, not just mobile) lasted ~30 hours and was largely lifted by Feb 7, 2021 — used here as date_end with end_date_confidence: estimated, since it is explicitly a proxy for the CLEAN, defensible anchor point, not a claim the full disruption named in this event's title ended then. Mobile data and social-media access remained heavily restricted for weeks after: an Asia Centre briefing describes mobile data still down as of Mar 31, 2021 (in what appears to be a renewed cut rather than the same continuous one — see 2021-nightly-curfew's date_end for the Mar 15, 2021 date that likely marks this renewal). Status stays unresolved, not ended, because Feb 7 only closes the initial acute blackout phase, not the full \"mobile data and broadband cut\" scope this event's title describes.\n",
  "scope": {
    "regions": [],
    "townships": [],
    "asns": [],
    "operators": []
  },
  "confidence": "corroborated",
  "detection_sequence": [
    {
      "layer": "ooni_anomaly",
      "at": "2021-02-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "OONI's own February 2021 monthly aggregate: 443,319 measurements (roughly 4x a typical month in this dataset), 12.7% anomaly rate — both consistent with major disruption and a surge in probe activity, not by itself a precise same-day signal.",
      "signal_ids": []
    },
    {
      "layer": "media",
      "at": "2021-02-07T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Associated Press: mobile data services disappeared, accelerating sharply late morning on Saturday Feb 6; broadband failed later, with mixed reports on landline/mobile voice.",
      "signal_ids": []
    }
  ],
  "verified_by": [
    "media"
  ],
  "narrative": "DRAFT — needs an editor rewrite. STATUS CAVEAT, read before publishing: no source currently in this archive (STOP — which has no Myanmar record before Aug 2021 at all — digest, or site articles) confirms when this specific nationwide cutoff was resolved. STOP's dataset gap means this event cannot be STOP-anchored like most others. status is left as \"ongoing\" because that is what the available sources support (last confirmed as active Feb 7 per AP; no later source in this archive says it ended) — this is NOT a claim that the Feb 6, 2021 cutoff is literally still active in 2026. An editor or a future source pass should replace this with a real resolution date. IODA's historical BGP data does not reach back this far (checked live, 2026-07: empty response for Feb 2021) and our own BGP monitoring did not exist until 2026 — per spec, this layer is omitted rather than estimated, not silently assumed absent.\n",
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Associated Press",
      "url": "https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-myanmar-media-social-media-yangon-e7765d3459d386219ee1dca8ad1e089c"
    },
    {
      "label": "OONI Explorer — retrospective analysis citing IODA's BGP/Active Probing/IBR signal drop on Feb 6, 2021",
      "url": "https://ooni.org/post/2021-investigating-internet-shutdowns-mozilla-telemetry/"
    },
    {
      "label": "OONI: Myanmar internet blocks and outages (Mar 8, 2021)",
      "url": "https://ooni.org/post/2021-myanmar-internet-blocks-and-outages/"
    },
    {
      "label": "Internet Society Pulse: Further internet shutdown in Myanmar",
      "url": "https://pulse.internetsociety.org/en/shutdowns/further-internet-shutdown-in-myanmar/"
    },
    {
      "label": "Asia Centre briefing note: Myanmar Coup and Internet Shutdowns (30 Mar 2021)",
      "url": "https://asiacentre.org/wp-content/uploads/Briefing-Note-Myanmar-Coup-and-Internet-Shutdowns.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "data_links": {
    "csv": "/data/events/2021-02-nationwide-connectivity-cut.csv",
    "json": "/data/events/2021-02-nationwide-connectivity-cut.json"
  }
}