{"id":962902,"date":"2025-09-19T10:14:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962902"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:21:42","slug":"internet-ban-spreads-across","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/19\/internet-ban-spreads-across\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet ban spreads across"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Taliban crackdown to \u201cprevent immorality\u201d is spreading across Afghanistan, with more provinces losing access to fibre-optic internet after the country\u2019s leader imposed a complete ban on the technology. It\u2019s the first time a ban of this kind has been imposed since the Taliban seized power in August 2021, and leaves Government offices, the private sector, public institutions, and homes without Wi-Fi internet. Mobile internet remains functional, however. Officials say alternatives are being found \u201cfor necessities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Taliban crackdown to \u201cprevent immorality\u201d is spreading across Afghanistan, with more provinces losing access to fibre-optic internet after the country\u2019s leader imposed a complete ban on the technology. It\u2019s the first time a ban of this kind has been imposed since the Taliban seized power in August 2021, and leaves Government offices, the private sector, public institutions, and homes without Wi-Fi internet. Mobile internet remains functional, however. Officials say alternatives are being found \u201cfor necessities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,80,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}