250,000 Afghans without phone service after attacks on towers

Thursday, March 27, 2008

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban attacks on telecom towers have prompted cell phone companies to shut down service across southern Afghanistan at night, angering a quarter million customers who have no other telephones.

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