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Government denies new cybersecurity measures responsible for up to 40% drop in
internet speeds across the country
For the free online tech skill classes advertised, there were hundreds of
Facebook “likes” 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’s speed.
“We received hundreds of complaints,” says the course tutor, Wardah Noor,
founder of the IT training firm XWave, based in Layyah, in the Pakistani
province of Punjab.
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