Internet users in Pakistan continue to experience slow browsing speeds due to a fault in the international submarine cable.
According to officials of Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT), 830 gigabytes per second of the affected traffic had already been shifted to an alternative route. While efforts are underway to reroute the remaining traffic.
On Saturday, IT minister Shaza Fatima Khawaja said that disruption in internet services due to a fault in the AAE-1 submarine cable affected 1,000 gigabytes per second of data traffic.
In a press statement issued on Thursday, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said that a fault has been reported in the submarine cable AAE-1 near Qatar (one of the seven international undersea cables connecting Pakistan for international internet traffic) which may impact internet and broadband user experience across Pakistan.
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