Nov 21, 2012, 09.45 AM IST

Reliance Netconnect blocks Wikipedia in TN and Karnataka for 5 days

Reliance Netconnect, the mobile CDMA broadband service of Reliance Communications, had blocked Wikipedia across Tamil Nadu and Karnataka from November 15 to November 20.

Source: Tech2.com
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Reliance Netconnect, the mobile CDMA broadband service of Reliance Communications, is reported to have blocked Wikipedia across the Tamil Nadu and Karnataka circles from November 15 till yesterday at around 4 p.m. The Wikipedia domain was unavailable across all languages. The error message generated after trying to access any page on Wikipedia did not indicate an ISP-level block; it simply displayed that the Internet connection to the server wasn’t working. The media repository of Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Commons, was accessible in the two states.


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