The ongoing internet slowdown across the country is mainly due to fault in two (SMW4, AAE-1) of the seven international submarine cables connecting Pakistan internationally, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said in a statement on Wednesday.
It is updated that the fault in SMW-4 submarine cable is likely to be repaired by early October 2024. Whereas submarine cable AAE-1 has been repaired which may improve internet experience, it added.
Last week, PTA told the Senate Standing Committee on IT and Telecom it was VPNs that had overloaded internet services in the country. Officials at the time said one submarine cable was expected to be fixed by August 27, 2024, while another underground cable had malfunctioned, which will now be fixed by October 2024.
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Oct tak koi aur masla kara ho jai ga…. Aur log adiii ho jain gay low speed ky… Firewall be set ho jai ga.. agar na howa to phir koi aur cable tornay ka drama… Dramastan he banta ja raha hai Hamara payara watan…. 2 months freelancers miti khanay ke adat bnain.. aur businesses move to UAE for survival. Political stability has vital role in growth of businesses. We have 7 cables but no political stability. 46 billion USD (~Rs. 12800 billion) ka tax collection target hai… But facilities are vanishing. How to meet those targets? It’s the worst time and need collective efforts for the sake of independent nation.
Lumber 1 in excuses
Can’t stop issues
Can’t stop attacks
Can’t provide any reliefs
Can’t do anything about rising issues
But yeah internet Is an issue
well said
Internet has been working absolutely fine for a majority of folks in the country, literally idiots will be using Whatsapp etc for their work while so many alternatives and applications exist.
Our people love to complain but have zero knowledge to address slow internet, likely don’t even know how they can improve by just ensuring they are connected via LAN not wifi.
PTA is stupid as well, VPN’s overloading LOL
Interesting, underground rather under seawater fiber cable is only affecting Pakistan and gets bypassed by VPN.
It’s written SUBMARINE cable.
Novel Discovery: VPNs can connect internet services via broken cables in PK.
The world is shocked and recommends ending the international consortium for underwater internet cables…. instead recommending using a VPN when the undersea cable is broken:D