Chairman Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Major General (retd) Hafeez Rehman on Wednesday reassured the Senate Standing Committee on IT and Telecom that sharks can’t eat the submarine cables.
He briefed the committee that seven submarine cables, including the much-anticipated 2Africa cable, will soon be connected to Pakistan’s mainframe this year. The chairman said four additional cables are planned for the coming years to enhance internet capacity and reliability.
He also expressed optimism that more entities will start sending their applications to the regulator for registering their virtual private networks.
One senator raised concerns over Pakistan’s persistently poor internet speeds. He argued that the country ranks 97th globally in terms internet speed, and lamented prevalent issues like difficulty in downloading voice notes.
The committee called for input from the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Law to address these challenges.
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Does anyone know what is the progress on PEACE cable? It was supposed to connect Pakistan China through Arabian Sea to France?
Heard about it 4 years ago that it was to be connected by 2023, and China Mobile + Cybernet + Jazz were the local Operators who Jointly owned it?
2Africa Cable is getting quite a fanfare after the news that it’s just about to be Connected meanwhile I haven’t seen anyone talking about PEACE cable since the news that will be connected by some future date.
If knows please tell whether it’s been connected or not. Cuz I have seen Cybernet(aka Stormfiber) services being deteriorated in recent times and they have fallen behind in terms of their offerings, which shouldn’t have happened had the PEACE cable been operational?
PEACE is already fully operational as of Q2 2024 and is being used by Cybernet/StormFiber, however it seems they have not rented enough capacity on it and are still relying on bandwidth from PIE/PTCL to serve their entire user base.
The reason you haven’t seen much about PEACE in the media is because it failed to attract any interest from major global telcos due to Chinese involvement.
It offers a relatively low latency path from France to Singapore, however it is mostly a failure as a cable because it missed out on landing in India which is a major market for new submarine cables nowadays.