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Iran:Government Bans Fast Internet

Written byFred Petrossian
Posted 19 October 2006 21:25 GMT

According to media, service providers have been told to restrict online speeds to 128 kilobytes a second and been forbidden from offering fast broadband packages. A teenage blogger, Kourosh Ziabary wrote an open letter in his blog to Minister of Communication and criticised government on this subject [Fa].

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