AFP - Authorities have restricted internet access in Iran, the semi-official ISNA news agency said on Sunday, after nearly two days of nationwide protests triggered by a petrol price hike. "Access to the internet has been limited as of last night and for the next 24 hours," an informed source at the information and telecommunications ministry said,...

Press TV - Irans minister of telecommunications has slammed remarks by a senior US diplomat about internet blackout in Iran, saying it is pure hypocrisy that Americans are promising to provide Iranians with free and unrestricted internet. Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said on Monday Americans would better think about the unrestricted flow of vital ...

AFP - The Iranian government said Tuesday it will unblock the internet only when authorities are sure it will not be abused during violent demonstrations against a petrol price hike. The Islamic republic has been largely offline since the internet restrictions were imposed the day after the nationwide demonstrations broke out on Friday. "Many ...

Azer News - Iran's Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi said nearly 70 percent of Iraqs internet services are being supplied by the Islamic Republic. Iran is using its northwestern border region of Piranshahr as a main hub to transit internet to Iraq, Azari Jahromi said on September 12, Fars news agency ...

Telecompaper - Irans Communications Regulatory Authority (CRA) is set to introduce an amendment to its mandatory Internet Fair Usage Policy launched in December 2017 in a move aimed at deregulating the countrys internet market, Financial Tribune reported. ISPs have a few days to submit suggestions before the proposal is ratified. According to the ...

Tasnim The Internet service providers in Iran have resumed operation after a widespread cyberattack on Friday night that affected 168,000 systems in the world, Irans minister of communication said. Irans Minister of Communication and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi announced in a tweet early Saturday that more than 95 percent ...

IFP | Seyyed Mojtaba Mousavi: The global reactions to the temporary restriction of social media in Iran amid the recent unrest raises a serious question for Iranian people: if the freedom of Internet is so much important for other countries, why dont we see any major reaction to the anti-Iran technology sanctions? Use of this service is restricted ...

Financial Tribune - The rate of mobile Internet usage has grown 42% over four years, with the latest data putting the number at 33 million subscribers at the end of the previous fiscal that ended in March, an increase of 3.9 million. Until 2013, only 0.8% of people (about 600,000) used Internet mobile services, prior to the introduction of 3G and ...

IFP- An Iranian official says Iran is the major Internet service provider for neighbouring Iraq. Managing Director of Irans Infrastructure Communications Company Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi says the country is the largest Internet service provider for Iraq and has a 70-percent share of its Internet market. He went on to say that Iran has overtaken ...

Press TV- Iran has launched an ambitious project to connect houses to a nationwide fiber optic network what the administration of President Hassan Rouhani would provide citizens with an easy access to high-speed internet. The project which had been developed by Iran Telecommunications Company (ICT) was launched by Irans Minister of Communication ...

Financial Tribune- The official portal of Measuring Information Society of Iran (MIS) affiliated to the Information Technology Organization announced that Internet penetration rate grew 7% during the last fiscal year that ended on March 20.? The organization released the latest statistics on Internet penetration based on a recent survey it conducted ...

Financial Tribune- A report says Internet tariffs have actually increased since 2013 and after President Hassan Rouhani took office, refuting earlier official reports to the contrary. The Young Journalists Club website looked at prices across several Internet providers, both landline ADSL and mobile, and shows that prices are actually moving upwards....

Iran is planning to further develop its infrastructure in order to become an internet transit hub between the east and west. During the Iran Connect 2016 conference, Mahmoud Vaezi, Irans Minister of Communications announcedthat the country is looking forward to the new opportunities emerged from the lifting of sanctions in order to carry the internet ...

Teheran, Iran, September 6, 2016 Italtel a leading telecommunications company in Network Functions Virtualization, managed services and all-IP communication today revealed its intentions in Iran, announcing it will concentrate on building up ultra-fast Internet wideband infrastructures so that essential services such as health and education can ...

On August 23, 199125 years agothe public gained access for the first time to the World Wide Web, designed and deployed by computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Switzerland. It gave rise to the Internet as we know and use it today, CNET reported. The Internet and the World Wide Web are not interchangeable. The Internet was first connected ...

Internet prices throughout Iran are likely to decline in the coming year while speed is expected to increase, according to a new press release from a government committee. Historically overpriced in view of the earning potentials of a majority of Iranians, Internet prices are expected to become more competitive with the introduction of 3G and 4G ...

Iran's Communications Regulatory Authority Committee has released further details on new Internet prices. During a session held on Saturday night, the committeeheaded by Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezimet to decide on a number of issues, including new Internet tariffs, Mehr News Agency reported. The committee ...

Many Western countries participating in the Wuzhen summit stressed the need for serious confrontation with cybercrimes and cyber-terrorism, the Iranian communications minister said. The US is trying to stick to its monopoly on the Internet forever but with the discussions raised at the second World Internet Conference, its seems new determination ...

Its the end of the Iranian month of Aban (Nov. 21) and that calls for our roundup of the trending search requests in Iran via Googles Trend Service. First up this month is Sadaf Taherian, an Iranian actress who is our leading breakout term, with over 4000% of searches in the country looking for news about her. Taherian is a leading Iranian television ...

Bojnurd, Nov 9, IRNA - The Internet inflitration level in Iran reached 82 percent in a population of 75,149,000, according to the figures released by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. By the end of 21 June 2015, the number of the Internet users in Iran reached 61,709,929 with the Internet connections at 43,026,279. The ...