The mobile telephony and internet services were banned across Kashmir by official authorities back in July, 2016. The ban continued following a mass unrest after the killing of Hizb Commander Burhan Wani. While the government restored the services of prepaid and postpaid mobile phones — the ban on internet services continued.

“There is no timeline for resuming the prepaid internet service in the valley. We are watching the situation. When we get proper situation for resuming the service, we will resume it. As of now, we don’t have any plan of restoring the service,” Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Javid Mujtaba Geelani was reported as saying by the Kashmir Monitor on December 29, 2016.