A couple of years ago, several provinces in the south of Argentina were connected over a single fibre optic cable that stretched for kilometres next to the road

A couple of years ago, several provinces in the south of Argentina were connected over a single fibre optic cable that stretched for kilometres next to the road (I doubt that this has changed since). One day, some construction work dug right into the fibre optic and left several cities without internet for a couple of days. The Internet is quite resilient in densely populated or wealthy regions, but it's definitely not for a large amount of the human population.