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UNDP assisted in the \u2018liberalisation\u2019 of Internet Services Provider market in the Maldives providing technical support for the government. The objective was to bring down prices and make Internet more accessible to the Maldives. However, close to a decade after the second ISP Focus Infocom was licensed in the Maldives, Internet is still not affordable or accessible to a large percentage of the population.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UNDP assisted in the \u2018liberalisation\u2019 of Internet Services Provider market in the Maldives providing technical support for the government. The objective was to bring down prices and make Internet more accessible to the Maldives. However, close to a decade after the second ISP Focus Infocom was licensed in the Maldives, Internet is still not affordable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-5235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-video_graphics","tag-links","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-1mr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5219,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/07\/gaanagaa-maldives-internets-black-hole-an\/","url_meta":{"origin":5235,"position":0},"title":"gaanagaa: Maldives: Internet’s “Black hole”?\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"March 7, 2011","format":"gallery","excerpt":"gaanagaa: Maldives: Internet\u2019s \u201cBlack hole\u201d? 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