Thursday, January 18, was the beginning of the most unprecedeed communication blackout in Iran. This time, the iernational Iernet was not the only service that was out of reach of users, and along with it, SMS, iernal messengers, iernational phone calls and dozens of other services stopped working. The absolute blackout of communication has grounded many businesses in the tourism sector. A significa amou of economic activities in the field of tourism takes place on the Iernet, and in the blackout of the Iernet, the activists in this field faced extensive problems. On the other hand, the shutdown of social networks has stopped the promotional activities of companies and caused their programs to be canceled one after another.
The fourth quarter of the year, especially January and Bahman, is considered the most importa time to advertise and plan tourism tours for Nowruz; The opportunity that has now become uncertain due to the iernet shutdown, and many tourism agencies have stopped their campaigns and plans for Nowruz trips due to the curre conditions.
What happened to the Iernet?
Although more than 10 days have passed since the communication blackout in Iran, some services have returned to the activity circuit. Iernational calls from Iran was the first service that became available; Although this possibility is connected one-way and it is still not possible to call inside the coury from abroad.
Domestic messengers, which were supposed to solve the coury’s need for messengers on the national iernet platform, were also unavailable this time at the same time as the iernet was cut off, and from the beginning of this week, the services of some of these services were gradually made available again. Based on this, personal and group chat functionality has been reactivated on Rubika, iGap, Yes and Sorushplus since Friday, January 26.
On the morning of Saturday, January 27th, the iernational iernet showed vital signs for a few minutes at the level of 2% of the coury’s connection; But this pulse of connection was also temporary and the situation quickly returned to absolute blackout.
The governme is also sile!
In such circumstances, the governme has completely absolved itself of responsibility for the state of the Iernet and businesses. These days, instead of responding to the situation of tourism businesses, the Ministry of Tourism is preparing to hold its annual tourism exhibition. “Salehi Amiri”, the Minister of Tourism and his deputy in the field of tourism, have not reacted to the state of tourism businesses during the iernet outage in even one seence. While the conversation with tourism activists shows the dire situation of this industry these days. The blackout of the iernet has marked the dark days for the tourism industry; But it seems that the situation in Azadi Citadel is completely normal for the team of the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism.
