Major Submarine Cable That Connects Pakistan Has Gone Offline

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PTA makes alternate arrangements, after cable fault disrupts internet

• “Work is underway to rectify the fault however it may take some time until the fault is removed completely,” informed PTA.

Ali Ahmed 19 Feb 2021



The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) informed that alternate arrangements has been made for internet connectivity affected due to a fault in International Submarine Cable, which disrupted internet services in the country.

“In the wake of a fault in one of the international cables landing in Pakistan, alternate arrangements to provide uninterrupted internet services to the users have been made by relevant service providers through obtaining additional bandwidth,” said PTA in a statement.

The telecommunication authority informed that the Trans World Associates (TWA) has earlier communicated service degradation on the international connectivity towards Europe on SMW5 cable system due to subsea fault near Abu Talat, Egypt.

“Work is underway to rectify the fault however it may take some time until the fault is removed completely,” informed PTA.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) added that it is monitoring the situation and will continue to update on it.

Internet services were hampered in Pakistan on Thursday as the country's telecom authority said one of its six international undersea cables developed a fault.

The PTA said the international submarine cable system near Abu Talat, Egypt, developed the glitch on Wednesday. The authority acknowledged lower internet speeds and frequent outages.
The PTA said the fault developed at SEA-ME-WE 5 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 5), which is operated by the Trans World Associates (TWA).

PTA makes alternate arrangements, after cable fault disrupts internet

“Work is underway to rectify the fault however it may take some time until the fault is removed completely,” informed PTA.

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[darksider]

What happened to Chinese product ban in India? Smashed a few old TVs and restarted trading ... Indian Hindus always bow when a danda is inserted!

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[Chhatrapati]

Vivo is back as main ipl sponsor. They need Chinese money

No we don't. They need the Indian business. Do you know they paid around $350 million for that title sponsorship? Why don't they invest that kind of money in their "brotherly" nations.

Pdf is also banned in China which makes me wonder where these chinese flag bearer on this forum are actually from.

They don't allow any public forum hosted from another country.

 

[darksider]

If they dont need thier money then should block them entering for sponsorship.there are lot of indian companies want to be main sponsor but vivo paid more than others so they got selected.
Indians from ban to Chinese companies and products to make them main sponsor of biggest Indian league was very fast track.nice going.

 

[khansaheeb]

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Internet In Pakistan Disrupted Due to Submarine Cable Cut

Posted 2 mins ago by ProPK Staff

Internet services in Pakistan are currently deteriorated as a major submarine cable connecting Pakistan to outside world is offline.

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According to details shared with ProPakistani, SEA-ME-WE-5 went offline earlier today due to a fault that was developed near Cairo, Egypt.

Not to mention, SEA-ME-WE-5 carries major portion of Pakistan’s internet traffic. It has a design capacity of 24Tbps, which essentially serves almost half of Pakistan’s international bandwidth needs.
Internet companies are in process of communicating their customers about the service issues, as the submarine cable has gone offline.

There is no ETA available on when the submarine cable could be up and running again, but from sources we can confirm that the rectification process could take up to 15 days.

This is a second submarine cable that developed fault with-in a week as IMEWE was disconnected just few days ago.

This calls for more submarine cables for the country to add redundancy for for the growing needs of dynamic Pakistani internet market.

Internet in Pakistan Disrupted Due to Submarine Cable Cut

Internet services in Pakistan are currently deteriorated as a major submarine cable connecting Pakistan to outside world is offline. According

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Likely a Hindjew hand- " went offline earlier today due to a fault that was developed near Cairo, Egypt. "

 

[Vapour]

Are military installations and other critical locations ring-fenced from this type of disturbance?