The Taliban has imposed a nationwide shutdown of telecommunications in Afghanistan, a move that has largely cut off the country from the rest of the world.
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Community members in Marrowbone, Rockhouse, and Elkhorn City have reported an ongoing outage impacting their landline phones and Internet connections since September 12.
Afghanistan has plunged into a nationwide internet blackout, with the Taliban cutting off more than 43 million citizens from global communications as part of what it has described as “morality measures.”
The ruling Taliban has cut off internet to most of Afghanistan, according to Netblocks, an internet watchdog.
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A large-scale Internet blackout hit Afghanistan on September 29, affecting almost the entire country. It comes just weeks after the ruling Taliban authorities started severing fiber-optic cables in multiple provinces, leading to localized outages.
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Phone and internet connections are down nationwide after the Taliban cut fibre-optic connections to prevent "immorality".
On orders from the ruling Taliban, Afghanistan's telecommunications authorities have capped fiber optic internet access. It is unclear how long telephone and cellular networks will be affected, or to what degree.
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