Network shutdowns reach record levels as Vodafone calls for stronger safeguards

A new Vodafone report - Network Shutdowns in a Connected World – highlights how the growing use of shutdowns goes beyond information blackouts to impose increasingly severe social, economic and security costs while often failing to achieve the policy objectives governments seek to deliver. - - Over the last decade, the frequency, duration and financial cost of network shutdowns have markedly increased. - - - • In 2025, Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition recorded at least 313 deliberat...