Internet connectivity across Pakistan showed signs of improvement on Tuesday after being severely disrupted by a series of global and regional outages. Industry experts said that service providers had begun rerouting data through overland fiber networks from China in an effort to restore capacity and stabilize performance.
Despite these measures, recovery has remained inconsistent, with many users in different parts of the country still experiencing patchy access and reduced speeds as work continues to repair damaged undersea cables. Data from outage monitoring service Downdetector showed that complaints about Cybernet’s network surged throughout the day, with several sharp spikes recorded between late morning and late evening. Of the reported issues, 75% were tied to internet connectivity problems, 14% involved complete service blackouts, and 11% related to difficulties accessing websites, according to the platform’s statistics.
Cybernet is among Pakistan’s top internet service and network infrastructure providers, operating one of the country’s submarine cable landing stations while delivering broadband, enterprise connectivity, and wholesale bandwidth services.
The disruptions began when Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a global outage. Since AWS hosts the core infrastructure for countless applications and websites worldwide, the failure of one of its main systems triggered widespread delays, leaving internet users facing slow or disrupted access across multiple platforms.
Adding to the problem, the PEACE submarine cable experienced a major cut. The damage occurred somewhere between the Red Sea and Europe, and experts say it will take time to pinpoint the exact location and nature of the fault before a repair vessel can be dispatched to fix it.
Additionally, the submarine cable system connecting between India, the Middle East, and Western Europe, called I ME WE, is down for Pakistan as well.
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Slowest Speed at the moment. Now 30-50 KB/S
Yesterday 5-6 KB/S.
Speed Test shows full speed… They have manipulated Speed Test.
Sure sure . We all know why internet lags . 😆 firewall
In my area the internet is still bad, as always. It is not the submarine cable that is always damaged, it is the intention of the authorities that is bad. The idea is to keep the people in the dark for ‘security’ reasons.
still in my area interent is down we only can access youtube other apps take so much time to load or either not working
Pathetic article, with no background knowledge. Only 1 mobile operator has china route. Rest all operators are using submarine cable routes.
their should be back up fiberoptic cables for such issues and its been many years the network should now be much better why still this is the issue in 2025
Lot of cock & Bull story. We all know why the Internet in Pakistan is always down and very slow. It’s to control the masses by CROOK Gen Asim and his gang.
In Pakistan internet is much costly and slow compare to the other/ neighbor countries. Even the PTCL looting their customers, very costly and not stable. Government must take serious notice to bring better internet services.