{"id":6512,"date":"2016-10-24T18:55:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T13:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=6512"},"modified":"2016-10-24T18:55:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T13:25:16","slug":"remaining-suspended-3-months-authorities-likely-restore-mobile-internet-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=6512","title":{"rendered":"After remaining suspended for over 3 months Authorities likely to restore mobile internet services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> <\/em>Authorities are likely to restore mobile internet services in Kashmir within next two days, said sources. The services were snapped on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1820562277\"><span class=\"aQJ\">July 8<\/span><\/span>, evening, soon after the killing of young militant commander Burhan Wani in an encounter with government forces in South Kashmir\u2019s Kokernag area.\u201cWith the improvement of situation across the Kashmir, the mobile internet services would be restored in Kashmir on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1820562278\"><span class=\"aQJ\">October 25<\/span><\/span> or <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1820562279\"><span class=\"aQJ\">October 26<\/span><\/span>,\u201d sources told KNS.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>They said that the authorities are taking assessment of the situation. \u201cThe situation across the Kashmir is by and large peaceful. The final call to restore services will be taken on shortly,\u201d they said.<br \/>\nOn October 14, prepaid mobile phone services were restored across Kashmir after remaining suspended for 98 days. However, mobile Internet services continued to remain suspended.<br \/>\nSources said that orders to restore mobile internet services will be communicated to all service providers in evening with the directions to resume this service from mid-night.<\/p>\n<h3>The prepaid mobile services were snapped across Kashmir on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1820562280\"><span class=\"aQJ\">July 8<\/span><\/span> evening<\/h3>\n<p>soon after the killing of young militant commander Burhan Wani in an encounter with government forces.<br \/>\nMobile Internet services were snapped the same evening across the valley. However, services were not suspended on State-run BSNL phones.<\/p>\n<p>Same evening, postpaid mobile services were also snapped in south Kashmir.<br \/>\nSimilarly, postpaid services were snapped in north Kashmir on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1820562281\"><span class=\"aQJ\">July 11<\/span><\/span> and central Kashmir on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1820562282\"><span class=\"aQJ\">July 15<\/span><\/span>.<br \/>\nOn <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1820562283\"><span class=\"aQJ\">July 16<\/span><\/span>, landline services were suspended in Baramulla, Bandipora and Kupwara in north Kashmir.<br \/>\nWhile postpaid mobile services were restored on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1820562284\"><span class=\"aQJ\">July 26<\/span><\/span>, the prepaid were restored a day after but outgoing call facility continued to remain barred.<\/p>\n<p>On <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1820562285\"><span class=\"aQJ\">August 11<\/span><\/span>, again, mobile services were snapped across Kashmir, except BSNL postpaid.On <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1820562286\"><span class=\"aQJ\">August 13<\/span><\/span>, postpaid services were restored but broadband services were snapped. A day after, postpaid services, except BSNL, were again snapped.<br \/>\nOn <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1820562287\"><span class=\"aQJ\">September 14<\/span><\/span>, broadband services were snapped again. They were resumed after four days, on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1820562288\"><span class=\"aQJ\">September 19<\/span><\/span>.<br \/>\nOn October 14, in an official statement, police said: \u201cWith the improvement in the situation prepaid mobile services are being restored from <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1820562289\"><span class=\"aQJ\">tonight<\/span><\/span>.\u201d <em><strong>(KNS)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Authorities are likely to restore mobile internet services in Kashmir within next two days, said sources. The services were snapped on July 8, evening, soon after the killing of young militant commander Burhan Wani in an encounter with government forces in South Kashmir\u2019s Kokernag area.\u201cWith the improvement of situation across the Kashmir, the mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}