{"id":965146,"date":"2025-09-30T09:11:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T03:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965146"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:20:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T03:50:05","slug":"taliban-shut-down-communications-across-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/30\/taliban-shut-down-communications-across-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban shut down communications across Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul: Taliban authorities on Monday imposed a nationwide shutdown of communications, weeks after they began severing fibre optic connections to prevent &#8220;vice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Connectivity was operating at less than one percent of its normal levels, according to internet watchdog Netblocks, who called it a &#8220;comprehensive, or total blackout&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In the minutes before it happened, a government official told AFP the shutdown would last &#8220;until further notice&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul: Taliban authorities on Monday imposed a nationwide shutdown of communications, weeks after they began severing fibre optic connections to prevent &#8220;vice&#8221;. Connectivity was operating at less than one percent of its normal levels, according to internet watchdog Netblocks, who called it a &#8220;comprehensive, or total blackout&#8221;. In the minutes before it happened, a government official told AFP the shutdown would last &#8220;until further notice&#8221;.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965146","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=965146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}