Disruption of Internet Services Due to COVID-19
Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, internet services around the world interrupted since last week. Most of the metropolitan cities are facing this issue. As we know the majority of the cities are under lockdown around the world and people are doing work from home and using internet services to keep them entertained in this lockdown, resulting in a significant degradation in the download speed.
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