[4] Headquartered in Kabul, Afghan Wireless provides 4G LTE and other services, such as internet and mobile payments to about five million subscribers across Afghanistan's 34 provinces.

[1][6] In 1998, Afghan-American telecommunications entrepreneur Ehsan Bayat won an exclusive license from Afghanistan's Taliban government to create a joint venture with the country's Ministry of Communications,[1] which was given 20% ownership.

[8] Afghan Wireless Communications Company, or AWCC, was established as a subsidiary of Telephone Systems International,[6] and financial backing was provided by the British entrepreneurs Stuart Bentham and Lord Michael Cecil.

[12][1] Cecil, Bentham, and two other founding investors counter-sued, claiming they had not received over £250 million in due shares and alleging "fraud, deceit, breach of contract and conspiracy".

[15] The attacks were reported stopped by 2009, with The Globe and Mail explaining that "public discontent with service disruptions overwhelmed religious or tribal affiliations.

[13][1] Rose claimed that in the operation's planning stages, the FBI and NSA helped transfer ownership of Afghan Wireless to a shell company, Netmobile, in Liechtenstein, to circumnavigate the 1999 Executive Order 13129 ban on American citizens doing business with the Taliban.

[19] Afghan Wireless announced that it had launched the first 4G LTE service in Afghanistan in May 2017, claiming position as the country's largest private employer, with 8,000 employees.

[21] The following month, the company signed a new license agreement with the Afghanistan Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (ATRA) for installation and operation of a fiber optic network.