Editing Internet backbone (section)

===Caucasus===
Certain countries around the [[Caucasus]] have very simple backbone networks. In 2011, a 75-year-old woman in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] pierced a [[Optical fiber|fiber backbone]] line with a shovel and left the neighboring country of [[Armenia]] without Internet access for 12 hours.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lomsadze|first=Giorgi|title=A Shovel Cuts Off Armenia's Internet|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704630004576249013084603344|access-date=16 April 2011|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=8 April 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225063937/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704630004576249013084603344|archive-date=25 December 2014}}</ref>  The country has since made major developments to the fiber backbone infrastructure, but progress is slow due to lack of government funding. {{Citation needed|reason=The source that is linked above does not have information on subsequent infrastructure updates|date=March 2025}}