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Internet outage in Iraq on 4 October 2026: Earthlink, Hulum Almustakbal, Al Atheer
The scheduled shutdown in Iraq affected Noor Al-Bedaya: signal down 100%, serves 4.5% of the country's users; Earthlink: signal down 100%, serves 22.9% of the country's users; Hulum Almustakbal: signal down 100%, serves 16.3% of the country's users; Al Atheer: signal down 78%, serves 5% of the country's users. Together they serve about 48.7% of the country's users; the providers we track cover only about 62% of users (APNIC estimate), so the real share may be higher. Kurdistan Net, Newroz Telecom and Korek Telecom showed no change. Across the country, 68% of address blocks stopped answering our checks.
This is a scheduled shutdown, not a failure: the country goes offline at the same hour, 15 times in two months. This is how internet is usually switched off by order for the duration of national exams.
| When (UTC) | Duration | Severity | Address blocks silent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 03:30-04:10 UTC | 40 min | Scheduled shutdown | 68% |
How it looked
The country two hours before, at the deepest point of the drop and two hours after. Area colour = how far its signal was below its own normal.
▶ Replay it on the live map: before, during, after
Data: IODA (Georgia Tech); analysis: GeoCables.
Country signal around the event
Each point: share of the country's networks that answered a probe within 10 minutes. Data: IODA (Georgia Tech). Event selection, exact timing and provider breakdown: GeoCables. Red band: the event.
Providers during the event
| Provider | Share of users | Signal drop | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earthlink AS199739 | 22.9% | 100% | Affected |
| Hulum Almustakbal AS203214 | 16.3% | 100% | Affected |
| Kurdistan Net AS206206 | 6.4% | 0% | No change |
| Starlink AS14593 | 5% | - | Global network |
| Al Atheer AS59588 | 5% | 78% | Affected |
| Noor Al-Bedaya AS208324 | 4.5% | 100% | Affected |
| Newroz Telecom AS21277 | 4.2% | 0% | No change |
| Korek Telecom AS59625 | 2.7% | 0% | No change |
Share of users: APNIC estimate, scaled so that the providers of the country add up to 100%. Drop: how many of the network's address blocks stopped answering our checks. Mobile networks keep many people behind few addresses, so the country-wide share of silent addresses is not the share of people offline. Global networks (Starlink and the like) are measured worldwide by the source, not in this country.
Submarine cables feeding Iraq
How we know this
Both series come from IODA (Georgia Tech): BGP route visibility and active probing of networks inside the country. GeoCables does the rest: a drop of 20% or more below the usual level of the last 24 hours is a disruption, 50% or more an outage; the exact start and end are taken from the full-resolution series (10-minute steps), not from the moment our detector recorded the event. Provider figures are hourly samples from the same source; a provider counts as affected at a drop of 30% or more. Our own probes on land are a separate layer and are shown here only when they saw the event. If the providers that dropped serve under a quarter of the country's users and the largest provider worked as usual, we call it an outage in part of the networks rather than a major outage.
Confidence: High: the drop is visible in both signals (probing and routes).
Data: Country series for this page (JSON) · Permanent link to this event: geocables.com/outages/iq/2026-10-04 · Page generated 05.10.2026 04:20 UTC