- Mobile signals, Wi -Fi return in the provinces, including Kandahar, Herat.
- Afghas celebrate in the streets of Kabul with sweets, balloons and prayers.
- The UN urges Taliban to guarantee uninterrupted access to Internet services.
Mobile and Internet networks were restored in Afghanistan on Wednesday, 48 hours after the Taliban authorities closed the telecommunications.
The confusion seized the country in southern Asia on Monday night when the mobile and internet telephone service fell without prior notice, freezing companies and cutting the Afghan from the rest of the world.
The mass blackout occurred weeks after the government began to reduce high -speed Internet connections to some provinces to avoid “immorality”, by order of Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundada.
AFP The journalists reported on Wednesday that the signals of mobile phones and Wifi had returned to the provinces throughout the country, including Kandahar in the south, Khost in the east, the center of Ghazni and Herat in the west.
The Taliban government has not yet commented on the closure of telecommunications.
On Wednesday night, hundreds of Afghas poured into the streets in the capital Kabul, running the word that the Internet had returned.
“It’s like Eid al-Adha; it’s like preparing to pray,” said Sohrab Ahmadi, 26, a delivery driver.
“We are very happy from the bottom of our hearts.”
After days of tension, the Afghan celebrated buying sweets and balloons, while the drivers played the horns, the phones pressed their ears.
“The city is alive again,” Tawab Farooqi, a restaurant manager in the city, told Mohammad AFP.
Business, Airports, Closed Banks
Netblocks, a surveillance organization that monitors cybersecurity and internet governance, said the blackout “seems consistent with the intentional disconnection of the service.”
He said that connectivity had decreased to 1% of ordinary levels.
A government official warned AFP Minutes before the closing of Monday night that the fiber optic network would be cut, affecting mobile phone services, “until again notice”.
There were generalized closures of companies, airports and markets, while banks and mail offices could not operate.
The Afghan could not contact each other inside or outside the country, and many families prevented their children from going to school during uncertainty.
Those who live in Herat and Kandahar traveled to the border cities to catch signs of the neighbor Iran and Pakistan.
The United Nations said on Tuesday the closing “Afghanistan left Afghanistan almost completely interrupted from the outside world,” and asked the authorities to restore access.
Internet connections have been extremely slow or intermittent in recent weeks.
On September 16, when the first Internet services were first reduced in the provinces of the North, Balkh Provincial spokesman, Attaullah Zaid, said the prohibition had been ordered by the Taliban leader.
“This measure was taken to avoid vice, and alternative options will be established throughout the country to meet connectivity needs,” he wrote on social networks.
“Recent studies in Afghanistan found that Internet applications have seriously affected the continuous, economic, cultural and religious foundations of society,” he said.
