Mobile internet service on postpaid phones restored in Kashmir after 133 days
However, prepaid users and WIMAX internet service continued to remain suspended.
Mobile internet service on Postpaid and Prepaid phones were snapped across Kashmir by the state government on July 8 evening, after the killing of Hizb militant leader Burhan Wani along with three associates in an encounter with government forces in Bamdoora area of Kokernag of South Kashmir.
"Mobile internet services on postpaid phones are being restored from tonight (Friday),” police said.
However, there has been no information on lifting of internet ban on prepaid mobile phones.
Mobile internet services were snapped on July 8 evening across the Valley. However, services were not suspended on State-run BSNL phones.
Same evening, postpaid mobile services were also snapped in south Kashmir and in some parts of the Valley.
Postpaid mobile services were then restored on July 26, and after a month prepaid were restored in the Valley without internet facility.
(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)
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