{"id":965365,"date":"2025-10-01T08:31:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965365"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:46:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:16:49","slug":"we-are-blind-the-impact-of-afghanistans-telecoms-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/01\/we-are-blind-the-impact-of-afghanistans-telecoms-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We are blind&#8217;: The impact of Afghanistan&#8217;s telecoms blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo: Afghanistan&#8217;s Taliban authorities have cut telecommunications nationwide, paralysing services crucial to women&#8217;s education, information access and entertainment. <\/p>\n<p>The blackout, which the Taliban government says will be in place &#8220;until further notice&#8221;, also threatens to cripple the country&#8217;s already fragile economy. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the key areas affected by the shutdown:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo: Afghanistan&#8217;s Taliban authorities have cut telecommunications nationwide, paralysing services crucial to women&#8217;s education, information access and entertainment. The blackout, which the Taliban government says will be in place &#8220;until further notice&#8221;, also threatens to cripple the country&#8217;s already fragile economy. Here are some of the key areas affected by the shutdown:<\/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-965365","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\/965365","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=965365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}