Editing Communications in Afghanistan (section)

==Internet==
{{Main|Internet in Afghanistan}}
[[File:Afghan man reading Wikipedia article in Kandahar.jpg|thumb|Internet user at [[Kandahar University]]]]
[[File:Flickr - The U.S. Army - Radio station gives voice to remote mountain province.jpg|right|thumb|Afghani [[radio personality|broadcaster]] on Kala Gush Radio sending communications out across [[Nuristan province]], Afghanistan]]
[[File:Shamshad TV studio in 2010.jpg|thumb|[[Shamshad TV]] studio began transmitting in 2005 and mainly broadcasts in [[Pashto]] language]]
[[File:TOLOnews Studio .jpg|thumb|Studio of [[TOLOnews]], a twenty-four hour Afghan news channel launched in August 2010, broadcasting from [[Kabul]], Afghanistan]]

Afghanistan was given legal control of the "[[.af]]" domain in 2003, and the Afghanistan Network Information Center (AFGNIC) was established to administer [[domain name]]s. The country has 327,000 IP addresses and around 6,000 [[.af]] domains.<ref name="The battle for control of Afghanistan’s internet">{{cite news |url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/afghanistan-taliban-internet |title=The battle for control of Afghanistan’s internet |publisher=Wired (magazine) |date=September 7, 2021 |access-date=2023-02-15}}</ref> [[Internet in Afghanistan]] is accessed by over 9 million users today.<ref name="iws">{{cite web|url=https://www.internetworldstats.com/asia.htm#af |title=Asia Internet Stats by Country and Population Statistics}}</ref> According to a 2020 estimate, over 7 million residents, which is roughly 18% of the [[demographics of Afghanistan|population]],<ref name="World Bank">{{cite web |url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.ZS?locations=AF |title=Individuals using the Internet (% of population) |publisher=World Bank |date=2020 |access-date=2023-01-21}}</ref> had access to the internet.<ref name="CIAWFAF">{{cite web |title=Afghanistan |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/afghanistan/#communications |website=The World Factbook |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency |access-date=2020-10-12}}</ref> There are over a dozen different [[internet service provider]]s in Afghanistan.<ref name=mcit/>