4G internet services were restored in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, after being suspended for nearly two years. J&K administration Principal Secretary Rohit Kansal took to Twitter to announce that 4G internet services have been reinstated in the union territory.
Kansal, in a tweet, wrote, “4G mobile internet services being restored in entire J&K.”
The people of Jammu and Kashmir have lived through one of the longest internet shutdowns anywhere in the world.
Both mobile internet and fixed-line connections stopped working in Jammu and Kashmir hours before the Indian Parliament stripped the erstwhile state of its special constitutional status on August 5, 2019. Six months later, the government restored mobile internet at low speeds but fixed-line broadband was revived in the union territory as late as March 2020.
In August 2020, Centre had told Supreme Court that a special committee was working on restoring internet services in Jammu and Kashmir. Centre told that the committee was considering permitting 4G internet access on a trial basis in J&K. Centre had stated that 4G internet access will be granted to one district in Jammu region and one district in Kashmir. 4G internet services were soon restored in Ganderbal and Udhampur districts on J&K on August 16, 2020. The rest of Jammu and Kashmir continued with access to just 2G internet services, till now.
