{"id":293888,"date":"2025-09-30T22:05:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=293888"},"modified":"2025-09-30T22:05:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:05:40","slug":"taliban-cuts-fibre-optic-networks-disrupts-internet-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=293888","title":{"rendered":"Taliban cuts fibre optic networks disrupts internet in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cA nationwide telecoms blackout is now in effect,\u201d Netblocks, a group that monitors internet access, revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re now observing national connectivity at 14% of ordinary levels,\u201d it stated. The group added that the situation \u201cappears consistent with the intentional disconnection of service.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crackdown began earlier this month, slowing or cutting high-speed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capacitymedia.com\/internet\">internet&nbsp;<\/a>across many areas. Additionally, phone services are also affected because they use the same fibre lines.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"747\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-293895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-12.png 800w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-12-300x280.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-12-768x717.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>According to Netblocks, physically pulling the plug on fibre internet would \u201ctherefore also shut down mobile and fixed-line telephone services\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan has been hit by a communications blackout after the Taliban cut fibre-optic internet in several provinces to stop what they call \u201cvice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":293889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1597,35,5030],"tags":[18314,18313],"class_list":["post-293888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-breaking-news","category-internet","tag-optical-fibre-networks","tag-taliban"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293888","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293898,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293888\/revisions\/293898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/293889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}