Taiwan to slow mobile internet in civil defense drills as China threat grows

Taiwan will deliberately slow mobile ​internet speeds for the first time during annual civil defense drills in August, testing how citizens would communicate if bandwidth became ‌scarce in emergencies ranging from disasters to a Chinese invasion.

During the 30-minute slowdown, high-bandwidth services, such as video calls, streaming and social media images, will be unavailable across 14 cities and counties ‌in northern and central Taiwan home to about 70 percent of the population, government plan ...