Wifi speed by ookla
Seattle-based Ookla, which compiles global internet speeds, put Afghanistan's mobile internet as the slowest of 137 countries and its fixed internet as the second slowest of 180 countries.
"It's too hard to access internet in Afghanistan and sometimes we have half an hour of power in 24 hours."
But she abandoned it in frustration after battling the problems. Sakina Nazari tried a virtual language class at her home in the west of Kabul for a week after she was forced to leave her university in December. It has had hundreds more applications but cannot enrol them for now because of a lack of funds for teachers and to pay for equipment and internet packages, a representative of the academy said. Her online school, Rumi Academy, saw its enrolment of mostly females rise from about 50 students to more than 500 after the Taliban took over in 2021. "For girls in Afghanistan, we have a bad, awful internet problem," Sofia said. The Taliban administration has allowed girls to study individually at home and has not moved to ban the internet, which its officials use to make announcements via social media.īut girls and women face a host of problems from power cuts, to cripplingly slow internet speeds, let alone the cost of computers and wifi in a country where 97% of people live in poverty. READ | Girls' education in Afghanistan only being 'postponed'
After nearly two decades of Western-led intervention and engagement with the world, 18% of the population had internet access, according to the World Bank.