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Internet outage in Libya on 6 October 2026: Giga, Libyan International

What happened · 6 Oct 2026, 03:40-04:00 UTC (20 min)

The disruption in Libya affected Libyan International: signal down 62%, serves 3.8% of the country's users; Giga: signal down 43%, serves 12.3% of the country's users. Together they serve about 16.1% of the country's users (APNIC estimate). Libyana Mobile Phone, General Post and Al Madar Al Jadeed Joint showed no change. Across the country, 34% of address blocks stopped answering our checks.

To quote: «According to GeoCables, on 6 Oct 2026 (03:40-04:00 UTC), Libya: disruption at Libyan International (signal down 62%), Giga (signal down 43%); no change at Libyana Mobile Phone, General Post, Al Madar Al Jadeed Joint.» Source: geocables.com/outages/ly/2026-10-06
When (UTC)DurationSeverityAddress blocks silent
6 Oct 2026 03:40-04:00 UTC20 min Degraded34%
6 Oct 2026 02:00-02:30 UTC30 min Degraded32%
6 Oct 2026 01:10-01:30 UTC20 min Degraded24%

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.

before · 01:40 UTC · normal
Ghadamis: −0%An Nuqat al Khams: −7%Al Kufrah: −0%Ajdabiya: −0%Ash Shati': −0%Surt: −0%Misratah: −14%Al Marqab: −20%Tajura' wa an Nawahi al Arba: −7%Az Zawiyah: −13%Al Qubbah: −0%Al Jabal al Akhdar: −0%Al Marj: −0%Benghazi: −0%Al Jifarah: −8%Mizdah: −0%Al Jufrah: −0%Sabha: −13%
deepest · 03:40 UTC · −34%
Ghadamis: −0%An Nuqat al Khams: −60%Al Kufrah: −0%Ajdabiya: −0%Ash Shati': −0%Surt: −25%Misratah: −41%Al Marqab: −40%Tajura' wa an Nawahi al Arba: −36%Az Zawiyah: −56%Al Qubbah: −0%Al Jabal al Akhdar: −0%Al Marj: −0%Benghazi: −7%Al Jifarah: −50%Mizdah: −60%Al Jufrah: −0%Sabha: −38%
after · 06:00 UTC · normal
Ghadamis: −0%An Nuqat al Khams: −60%Al Kufrah: −0%Ajdabiya: −0%Ash Shati': −0%Surt: −25%Misratah: −41%Al Marqab: −40%Tajura' wa an Nawahi al Arba: −36%Az Zawiyah: −56%Al Qubbah: −0%Al Jabal al Akhdar: −0%Al Marj: −0%Benghazi: −7%Al Jifarah: −50%Mizdah: −60%Al Jufrah: −0%Sabha: −38%

▶ 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.

25% 50% 75% 100% 05.10 18:00 06.10 00:00

Providers during the event

ProviderShare of usersSignal drop
Libyana Mobile Phone AS32828637.7% 0%No change
General Post AS2100318.2% 10%No change
Aljeel Aljadeed AS3728412.8% 20%Slight drop
Giga AS32853912.3% 43%Affected
Libyan International AS3291293.8% 62%Affected
Al Madar Al Jadeed Joint AS3282003.6% 0%No change
Ion Telecom AS3280732.2% 27%Slight drop
Sharart Altaqanaya Co AS3294721.4% -No data

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 Libya

Europe India Gateway (EIG) Italy-Libya LFON (Libyan Fiber Optic Network) Medusa Submarine Cable System Silphium Tobrok-Emasaed Cable System

Incident history

Significant incidents on cables landing here, each with its own report.

All cable incidents →

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: Medium: the drop is visible in active probing; route visibility did not drop.

Data: Country series for this page (JSON) · Permanent link to this event: geocables.com/outages/ly/2026-10-06 · Page generated 06.10.2026 05:21 UTC

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