Internet: Blackout would cause billions of damage

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The economy is now almost entirely dependent on the functioning of the Internet, so a failure would make work impossible for a large part of the workforce. The cost of such an interruption would be huge, as current calculations show.

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An internet blackout would cost Germany almost seven billion euros a day. This is the result of calculations by the consumer portal Verivox based on a survey reported by "Welt am Sonntag". According to the survey, more than half of the working people surveyed in Germany (57.3 percent) rely on the internet every day. Only 13.6 percent said in the survey that they do not need the internet or only rarely need it for their job. Consequently, 86.4 p…