Mobile phone and internet signals are less than 1 per cent of ordinary levels, in line with an ‘intentional disconnection’, watchdog says.

Telecoms disrupted nationwide after authorities cut fibre optic connections in several provinces to prevent ‘vice’

An internet advocacy group says connectivity in Afghanistan has “collapsed” with a near-total nationwide telecoms disruption in effect.

KABUL: Afghanistan faced a second day without Internet and mobile phone service on Tuesday, after Taliban authorities cut the fiber optic network. Taliban authorities began…

Mobile phone and internet signals are less than 1 per cent of ordinary levels, in line with an ‘intentional disconnection’, watchdog says.

Taliban authorities cut fibre-optic network in nationwide shutdown of communications to prevent ‘vice’

Telecommunications down after Taliban authorities cut fibre-optic connections in several provinces to prevent ‘vice’.

Banking services have stopped, planes are grounded and aid distribution has been halted. The scope of the blackout is rare, even for a government that has increasingly rolled back…