{"id":66336,"date":"2024-08-21T20:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/21\/pakistan-businesses-reeling-from-slow-internet-blame-testing-for-firewall"},"modified":"2024-08-21T20:00:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T11:00:53","slug":"pakistan-businesses-reeling-from-slow-internet-blame-testing-for-firewall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66336","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan businesses reeling from slow internet blame testing for firewall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government denies new cybersecurity measures responsible for up to 40% drop in internet speeds across the country<\/p>\n<p>For the free online tech skill classes advertised, there were hundreds of Facebook \u201clikes\u201d and in the end 1,500 people signed up. But on the first day last week, only a handful of those registered managed to log in to the live session. The internet was working at a snail\u2019s speed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe received hundreds of complaints,\u201d says the course tutor, Wardah Noor, founder of the IT training firm XWave, based in Layyah, in the Pakistani province of Punjab.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/21\/pakistan-businesses-reeling-from-slow-internet-blame-testing-for-firewall\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government denies new cybersecurity measures responsible for up to 40% drop in internet speeds across the countryFor the free online tech skill classes advertised, there were hundreds of Facebook \u201clikes\u201d and in the end 1,500 people signed up. But on th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,351,60,61,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-internet","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66337,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66336\/revisions\/66337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}