Taiwan has launched its first mobile network slowdown exercise, a new civil defense measure designed to prepare the population for possible communication disruptions in the event of war, cyberattacks, or natural disasters. The South China Morning Post reports that the first test

TAICHUNG/PENGHU: Taiwan slowed the mobile Internet in a large swathe of the central part of the island on Monday for the first time during annual war games, simulating…

Critics question value of tests as authorities aim to prepare public for outages caused by war, cyberattacks or natural disaster.