Facebook, Telegram inaccessible through mobile internet

Social media platform Facebook and messaging app Telegram have been found unresponsive on mobile network.

Users have been having trouble using the two apps since this afternoon with some of them initially facing no such issue but later unable to access the apps as well.

Facebook, Messenger and Telegram were made inaccessible through mobile data as per an unofficial regulatory instruction, according to sources at telecom operators.

Sources at Grameenphone said, "Considering the current situation, authorities have restricted the use of some applications through mobile internet. We are in constant communications with the authorities in this regard."

Previously, students had called for a march following Jummah prayer in protest against the "massacre and mass arrests" and to press for their 9-point demand.

Prayers will be held in mosques after Friday prayers, and similar observances will take place at temples and churches, according to a notice sent to the media by the Movement's coordinator Abdul Hannan on Thursday. 

Mass processions of students will be held after Friday prayers, said the notice. 

The notice also urged all Bangladeshi citizens—workers, professionals, cultural workers, media workers, human rights activists, intellectuals, and scholars—to support their programme. 

The country experienced a nationwide internet blackout from 18 July to 25 July with mobile network being restored even later on 28 July. Meanwhile, Facebook was fully restored yesterday (1 August).