The recent internet shutdown in Iran underscored how fragile digital infrastructure can become under pressure. For companies operating in the Middle East, such shutdowns sever the connective tissue that binds logistics, customer support, data flows, and service delivery. Much like an athlete depends on ligaments and tendons to move effectively, your organization depends on uninterrupted network access to function. When that connection breaks—due to state censorship, throttling, or blackouts—operations don’t just slow down, they collapse.

As regional tensions and state-level internet controls escalate in Southeast Asia, logistics operators face a critical—often overlooked—operational risk: network fragmentation. In countries like Myanmar, Vietnam, and parts of Indonesia and the Philippines, governments and ISPs can throttle connectivity, block IPs, or allow full-scale blackouts during political unrest. For logistics firms, this means core functions like fleet tracking, warehouse syncing, customs reporting, or API integration with partners can fail without warning. With operations stretched across fragile digital environments, maintaining business continuity requires more than basic redundancy—it demands resilient, censorship-resistant infrastructure embedded directly into operational systems.

Across Africa, businesses are contending with increasingly unstable digital environments. Governments in several countries have imposed internet shutdowns during elections, protests, or periods of unrest, often crippling essential services like mobile payments, logistics platforms, and cross-border communications. These shutdowns are not only disruptive socially—they impose heavy costs on business continuity, with some estimates placing daily economic losses from blackouts in the tens of millions of dollars. At the same time, fragmented infrastructure and ISP throttling compound these risks, leaving companies without predictable or secure digital access in critical moments.