{"id":159372,"date":"2025-09-25T10:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159372\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:57:08","slug":"sources-afghan-telecom-resumes-limited-point-to-point-internet-in-helmand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159372\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Afghan Telecom resumes limited \u2018point-to-point\u2019 internet in Helmand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan Telecom has resumed limited internet services in Helmand through a \u201cpoint-to-point\u201d system, local sources said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The sources from the Taliban\u2019s provincial telecommunications department said the service has been restored not only for public offices and banks but also for families since Wednesday, Sept. 24.<\/p>\n<p>Similar limited point-to-point services have recently been reactivated in Balkh, Kandahar and Nangarhar, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as the Taliban have cut fiber-optic and Wi-Fi internet access in 16 provinces for more than a week, citing efforts to prevent \u201cimmorality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, sources said Taliban officials in Herat instructed local internet providers during a meeting to shut down services every night. For the third consecutive night on Wednesday, internet access in Herat was blocked until 8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban have not publicly commented on the partial resumption of point-to-point services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Afghan Telecom has resumed limited internet services in Helmand through a \u201cpoint-to-point\u201d system, local sources said on Thursday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-159372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}