A lot of individuals are accessing live internet by utilizing VPNs to get around cache data, which is putting pressure on the live internet and slowing it down.
After a protracted period of silence regarding the reason behind the slow internet in the nation over the previous few weeks, Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Shaza Fatima Khawaja made this statement at a news conference on August 18.
For over a decade, the government has been attempting to regulate Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). The first known notice was sent by the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) in 2011, instructing Internet service providers (ISPs) to provide the regulator with information about VPN users in the nation so that the regulator could impose a ban.Since then, the government has enforced a policy known as “whitelisting,” which requires companies and independent contractors to register their VPNs with them in order to keep using them.
The government claims it has the authority to do so under the Monitoring and Reconciliation of Telephony Traffic Regulation 2010 (MRITT), which is why notices were sent to firms in 2014 and 2022 requesting them to register VPNs and corresponding IP addresses in order to continue operating in the nation. This Act is primarily concerned with monitoring and regulating international phone traffic, especially in order to stop illicit VoIP services and guarantee that international call revenue is collected. However, the regulatory framework that governs VPNs is influenced by the surveillance and monitoring guidelines set forth in the MRITT.
