The Talibans Teleban

The Talibans Teleban

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Officials in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province have confirmed that gunmen destroyed a mobile-phone tower in the Sangin district on March 2.

It follows two attacks on telecommunication towers in neighboring Kandahar province on February 29 and March 1 after a Taliban demand that all telephone signals be turned off during the evening and overnight.

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This is a real shame. One of the beauties of wireless comms is it allows poor nations to build a modern telecommunications framework at a fraction of the cost of cabling up the whole country.

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