Afghanistan's cellphone, internet services down, monitoring shows

In the past, the Taliban have voiced concern about online pornography, and authoritiescut fibre-opticlinks to some provinces in recent weeks, with officials citing morality concerns. Internet connectivity in Afghanistan was flatlining around the 1 percent mark, said NetBlocks, an international internet access monitoring organisation. Connectivity was cut in phases on Monday, with the final stage affecting telephone services, which share infrastructure with the Internet, NetBlocks said in an email to Reuters. Private channel Tolo News, which warned viewers of a disruption to its services, said authorities had set a one-week deadline for the shutdown of 3G and 4G internet services for cell phones, leaving only the older 2G standard active. Cloudflare Radar, a global internet traffic monitor, said that Kabul,...