{"id":997391,"date":"2026-03-11T07:25:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997391"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:05:33","slug":"iran-spent-one-third-of-2026-in-internet-blackout-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/11\/iran-spent-one-third-of-2026-in-internet-blackout-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran spent one-third of 2026 in internet blackout: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran: Amid continued strikes by the US and Israel on Iran, people in the country are facing near-total internet blackouts. The country on Tuesday, since the beginning of 2026, witnessed a total of 240 hours of internet blackouts, making it the most severe government shutdown, as per cybersecurity and digital governance think tank Netblocks. <\/p>\n<p>Iran spent a third of 2026 in blackouts, the internet freedom monitor Netblocks said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran: Amid continued strikes by the US and Israel on Iran, people in the country are facing near-total internet blackouts. The country on Tuesday, since the beginning of 2026, witnessed a total of 240 hours of internet blackouts, making it the most severe government shutdown, as per cybersecurity and digital governance think tank Netblocks. Iran spent a third of 2026 in blackouts, the internet freedom monitor Netblocks said.<\/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-997391","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\/997391","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=997391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}