Taiwan Internet Slowed as Part of War Games Drill
The 30-minute drill kept voice calls and emergency alerts working while testing how people would cope if mobile data failed during a crisis.
- On Monday, August 10, troops from the First Theatre Command simulated repelling a Chinese air-landing assault on the Penghu Islands, deploying M60A3 tanks and anti-aircraft guns in a multi-layered coastal defense exercise.
- The 10-day Han Kuang exercise rehearses defensive scenarios amid China's claims that democratically governed Taiwan is its territory and threats to seize the island by force.
- Reservists joined the live-fire drills as part of their 14-day training programme, following a public alert the government sent August 7 via text messages in Chinese and English to notify citizens.
- Later today, the government will "throttle" mobile internet speeds for the first time to test communication resilience; ATMs, traffic signals, and landlines will remain unaffected.
- Northern Taiwan, including the capital Taipei, is scheduled to conduct the same exercises on August 13, expanding civil-defense drills to assess communication stability in densely populated urban centers.
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On Monday, Taiwanese authorities restricted citizens' access to the internet in an attempt to test their behavior in a crisis situation. However, a public safety expert believes another reason has weighed more heavily.
Taiwan reduced the speed of mobile internet in a large area of the central region of the island on Monday for the first time during its annual military exercises, simulating an interruption of communications in the event of a Chinese attack or a natural disaster. Democratically governed and claimed by China as part of its territory, Taiwan has been living together for decades with the threat of a Chinese invasion and is carrying out every year m…
Central Taiwan holds urban resilience drill in first mobile data slowdown
Taipei, Aug. 10 (CNA) Central Taiwan held an urban resilience air defense drill Monday that, for the first time, included the deliberate slowing of mobile internet services to simulate communications disruptions during a wartime emergency.
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PENGHU, Taiwan >> Taiwan’s military simulated repelling a Chinese air landing assault on the strategically vital Penghu Islands on Monday, and will later in the day “throttle” mobile internet for the first time during annual war games. The 10-day Han Kuang exercise kicked off last week, rehearsing various scenarios should China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, ever make good on threats to try and seize the island…
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