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Pakistan's Tech Lobby Warns That Slow Internet is Strangling IT Industry
Pakistan's IT Industry Association (P@SHA) -- the nation's sole tech biz lobby group -- has warned that government policy could lead to business closures and financial losses among its constituents, and damage the nation's IT exports. From a report: P@SHA's main beef is with a slowing of internet ac...
From a report: P@SHA's main beef is with a slowing of internet access speeds, and government-imposed service outages. The nation even floated the idea of providing its freelance workers with a tax holiday, subsidized broadband and health insurance as a way of supporting the online labor force. Pakistan has long tried to limit access to what it feels is inappropriate content, and the firewall was aimed at helping that effort.
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