The residents of Kalfaghan district of northern Takhar province say they have been lacking internet services for years while telecommunications networks also do not work properly in the district. Abdul Rahman, who has a money changing shop in…
For the first time in the past 20 years, telephone and internet services have been launched in Nowbahar district of southern Zabul province. Maulvi Abdul Hadi Yahya, Director of Zabul Telecommunications and Information Technology, told Pajhwok that Nowbahar…
Some residents of southeastern Khost province have complained of low-quality mobile phone and internet services. Inhabitants of some areas in Khost City, the provincial capital, and Zazai Maidan, Bak, Nadir Shah Kot, Musakhel, Spera and Qalandar districts…
The Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Technology (MoTIT) has sought Pakistan’s assistance in the development of the telecom sector and infrastructure. The ministry says if Pakistan sells the internet at a higher price, Afghanistan will have no option…
Residents of capital Kabul are complaining about high internet prices of telecom companies and poor quality of the service. A Pajhwok reporter interviewed a number of residents in different parts of Kabul who complained about bad quality of…
The internet price has been reduced in Afghanistan from nine afghanis per one GB data to 6.5 afghanis, but the rate is still 34 times higher as compared to India and seven times compared to Pakistan. Telecommunications and…
The Afghanistan Telecom Regulatory Authority (ATRA) office in eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday said problems continued to plague telecom services in Hesarak and Sherzad districts of the province, urging improved security to address them. ATRA officials expressed these…
The Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Technology on Tuesday inaugurated ‘Content Management System’ for management of government’s websites. Hadi Hedayati, deputy IT minister during the system’s inauguration in Kabul, said, “One of our goals is to convert our…
Thirty-eight state-run universities in capital Kabul and provinces would get access to permanent internet facility within next two years, an official said on Monday. An agreement to the effect was signed between the Ministry of Telecommunication and Information…
A number of people in western Ghor province say the government did not pay attention for the improvement of information technology infrastructure and internet speed in their province. Internet users in Ghor say that telecom companies did not…
The Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology (MCIT) on Tuesday announced a 20 percent cut in internet prices. Sayed Ahmad Shah Sadat, deputy MCIT minister, told a press conference here that previously Kazakhstan offered per MB of internet…
Telecommunication and Information Technology Minister Abdul Raziq Wahidi on Tuesday said the internet facility would be provided to the university, the civil hospital and some schools in the capital of central Logar province. During a visit to Pul-i-Alam,…
The residents of Nimroz province are critical of the low-quality services of Internet service-providing companies, accusing the firms of fleecing subscribers. Ghulam Dastagir, a resident of the provincial capital, told Pajhwok Afghan News he had activated his Internet…
