Authorities are connecting the country’s internet framework to the 2Africa Cable which is a 45,000 KM subsea cable and the largest cable project in the world.
Sources informed ProPakistani that the physical integration with the new cable system is underway to significantly enhance internet speeds across Pakistan. This extensive cable project is being spearheaded by Meta (Facebook) and is set to connect 45,000 kilometers of internet infrastructure to Pakistan.
The 2Africa Cable links 46 landing stations across Europe, Africa, and Asia and is expected to become operational in Pakistan by 2025. Once active, users in the country will gain access to one of the fastest internet services globally, sources added.
The traffic load on the cable is projected to go live in 2025.
Progress so Far
The government has made significant strides in enhancing international connectivity through the facilitation of Transworld Associate (TWA), the landing partner of 2Africa Submarine cable for Pakistan.
As one of the world’s largest submarine cable systems, the 2Africa cable spans 45,000 kilometers and connects 46 locations across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Utilizing SDM1 technology, it offers 180Tbps capacity. Supported by a global consortium of eight partners, including Meta and Vodafone, the 2Africa cable is set to go live in Pakistan by Q4 2025.
Commencement of Phase 1 of the project, involving Pre-Lay Shore End (PLSE) installation, began on December 1, 2024, with the cable landing at Hawksbay, Karachi. Phase 2, the deep-sea cable lay, will commence on April 1, 2025.
This project will improve Pakistan’s international telecommunications infrastructure and enhance connectivity.
At one hand choking the internet with a stupid “web management system” and on the other hand talking about enhancing internet speed, how ironic. only colonels can give such nonsense to govt and public.
Fake
Good but that’s the easy part. The difficult, the most challenging part is to convince all The local ISPs to lay and offer Fiber services(ideally packages in excess of 1Gbps to 10Gbps) out of Posh areas of handfull of big cities and into into less affluent but densely packed areas and smaller tier3 and tier 4 cities and qasbas.
Until that happens we’ll continue to languish in terms of wired broadband speed rankings.
That’s the biggest impediment. For example, look at the said company TWS. They only operate in a few Posh areas of just 3 cities of Pakistan namely: Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. That’s not how you make Fiber Internet ubiquitous in the country. That’s the reason why our wireless infrastructure is overloaded. Majority of population lives in Rural Areas and Fiber to Home is non existent in those areas. Big ISPs should be forced to lay and offer Fiber to Home connection in smaller cities and lesser known towns. Penalise them by taxation if they do not follow.
they should hire you
What a short sighted comment.
Do you think there is a market for 10 Gbps packages in Pakistan? People can barely afford the current tariffs set by ISPs for 20-30 Mbps packages and you think anyone will actually pay for 1G and above.
Look at TW, they are offering 1 Gbit/s for 85k per month including taxes. Now ask them how many customers they have for that package. Even in posh areas, I can’t imagine there are many customers for this, unless they are re-selling to their neighbours.
Not to mention, introducing 1G-10G packages will require ISPs to greatly expand their local CDN capacity, which is already lacking because of the absence of proper IXPs in this country. Another failure by PTA. They had several years to implement this properly and they did not.
The problem is not and never has been ISPs willingness to expand, it is idiotic rules set by local Govts and various housing societies that don’t give NOCs to lay fiber on their land unless bribes are given to senior management. Combine this with the ridiculously high taxes (almost 40%) imposed on broadband/internet and it’s clear as day why nobody wants to invest in improving fiber infrastructure here.
It’s not TWs or PTCLs job to provide FTTH access to the whole country. They are both Tier-1 operators who offer wholesale bandwidth. Smaller ISPs in each city can purchase bandwidth from them and offer FTTH locally in their areas, but it’s rare to see this because of the high licensing costs associated with opening an ISP, which is precisely why most local mohalla ISPs are illegal and operating without licenses.
It is the job of the Govt and the telecom regulator to promote growth in this sector and they have both failed miserably in doing so.
As for the people who are commenting ‘Fake’, it takes 30 seconds of research to verify the claims made in the article but it’s unfortunate to see that good news like the landing of 2Africa is considered a hoax because of the state of the internet in this country.
Propakistani always make same claims .
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