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Pakistan businesses reeling from slow internet blame testing for firewall

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Internet speeds in the country have dropped by 30-40% over the past few weeks .

IT companies say it has cost Pakistan businesses hundreds of millions of dollars .

The government has repeatedly denied being responsible for the problems.

It has admitted plans for a firewall to regulate, block malicious content and protect government networks.

More than 500,000 IT sector freelancers in Pakistan rely on mobile data.

The slowdown has had a devastating effect on his ranking which could take “ six months or more” to restore.

Bigger companies have not escaped.

Veqar Islam , CEO at Jaffer Business Systems , says “fiddling in this bizarre manner” is equivalent to taking Pakistan “back to the stone age”.

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