Internet services across Pakistan completely restored

By Muhammad YaseenPublished On 01 Jan 2023

ISLAMABAD: The internet services that were disrupted across the country due to a fault in the international submarine cable, are completely restored.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) in a post on Twitter on Sunday had said, Internet services are impacted you may face some service degradation due to technical fault in the International Submarine Cable AAE-1 at Doha.

The Asia-Africa-Europe-1 (AAE-1) is a 25,000km consortium cable system connecting South East Asia to Europe via Egypt. It connects Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, then onwards to Myanmar, India, Pakistan, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Yemen, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Greece, Italy, and France. AAE-1 cable system deploys 100Gbps transmission technology, with a minimum design capacity of 40Tbps.

Back in October, Pakistan experienced slow internet browsing owing to a fault in IMEWE, an international submarine cable system that provides internet bandwidth to the country.

The PTCL apologized for the inconvenience and said that their teams were working to fully restore internet services in the country.