{"id":286974,"date":"2025-09-19T01:48:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/telecom-business\/telecom-regulation\/19083-afghan-government-starts-shutting-down-fixed-internet-access.html"},"modified":"2025-09-19T01:48:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:48:24","slug":"afghan-government-starts-shutting-down-fixed-internet-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=286974","title":{"rendered":"Afghan government starts shutting down fixed internet access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/images\/stories\/Places\/Kabul_600.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest government attack on internet connectivity \u2013 and one of the most drastic so far \u2013 comes from Afghanistan, where ruling group the Taliban this week imposed an internet ban on the northern Balkh province, where a Wi-Fi shutdown was confirmed on Tuesday. The Taliban has said that the&nbsp;fibre optic internet ban will eventually be nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest government attack on internet connectivity \u2013 and one of the most drastic so far \u2013 comes from Afghanistan, where ruling group the Taliban this week imposed an internet ban on the northern Balkh province, where a Wi-Fi shutdown was confirmed o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5365],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regulation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286977,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286974\/revisions\/286977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}