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| Nepal restores cellular phone services |
| 2006-01-24 |
| KATMANDU - Nepal’s government restored cellular mobile phone services and lifted night curfews in the nation’s capital on Monday, easing restrictions imposed last week in an apparent attempt to foil an anti-government rally. The cellular phones were switched off by the government on Thursday along with land phone lines and Internet services. However, land lines and Internet services were resumed after only a few hours of disruption but cellular phones had remained cut off. The resumption of cellular phone services came just hours after Home Minister Kamal Thapa announced that the government believed the security situation had improved enough for the government to start easing restrictions. “We believe the security situation in Katmandu has improved enough for us to start lifting some of the restrictions that we were compelled to enforce,” Thapa said. |
| Posted by:Steve White |