As unrest in Libya continues to grow, the country once again has no access to the internet, according to online traffic reports. Google Transparency Report shows a clear drop off on March 3 at 9:30 pm (GMT), when Libya’s traffic– in and out of the country– fell to zero. It has not shown any usage since. This shutdown is different fromEgypt’s internet/SMS/Blackberryshutdown in late January, reports theInternational Business Times. Rather than shutting the servers down like Egypt did, Libya’s servers continue to respond, but data is sent into a virtual black hole....

For the pasttwo daysInternet connectivity in Libya has been oscillating on and off in a confusing yet systematic manner. Going down during the night, only to be restored minutes before sunrise amidst riots calling for the removal of Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s 42 year old regime. Monitoring the country’s connectivity shows that every morning at pricesly 05:30 AM GMT, the Internet is restored to the country, yet not entirely as websites such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and aljazeera....

Internet penetration has been growing faster in Latin America than in the rest of the world, and this is especially true in Mexico. This is one of the facts presented today in acomScorewebinar on the state of the Internet in Mexico. Here are its key findings: A young and growing market According to comScore’s figures for May 2011, the number of people over the age of fifteen who access the web from home or from work increased by 21 percent year-on-year in Mexico, compared to an average global growth of 10 percent....

What do you know about Internet in Peru? If the answer is “not much”, this is about to change: comScore just published its first report on web usage in the country, bringing us some interesting numbers. Those of you who read ourpost on the state of the Internet in Argentinayesterday will notice that Peru’s landscape is less mature than Argentina’s, but shares some trends with the rest of Latin America....

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