So it has been confirmed by the relative authorities that the Internet services in Pakistan have been restored and are now fully functional after a fault was reported in an international submarine cable which had caused disruptions in connectivity for many networks providing Internet services in Pakistan. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority have now officially confirmed that the issue has been resolved and the Internet is back to full service. Moreover,in a statement recorded by the authority,PTA said that internet services have been completely restored in the country.
As per the reports, faults had developed in two international submarine cables SMW4 and IMEWE yesterday, and were resolved earlier today and if anything, users can feel free to check their respective connections to see for themselves. In addition PTA was also asked to comment on the cause and loss incurred due to Internet Failure, to which Khurram Mehran a spokesperson for PTA replied to The News that the authority has asked PTCL to provide a report after an investigation.“Reasons and loss will be determined then,”
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In addition to things, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) announced the restoration of internet traffic on Twitter, where they confirmed that there should not be any issues going forward. PTCL wrote that “We are pleased to inform you that the SMW-4 submarine cable fault has been rectified and internet services have been restored”. PTCL further on also clarified the cause of the disruption and said that submarine cable AAE1 was never down during the recent outage and said it was misreported by certain media agencies.
It was on Tuesday that internet users faced sudden disruption which was later identified as fault in submarine cable when PTCL informed a user that the problem is due to a fault. In that regard PTCL took on Twitter and wrote that “Due to international submarine cable fault, internet services have been impacted in Pakistan. Technical teams are working on fully restoring internet services in the shortest possible time. PTCL sincerely regrets this temporary inconvenience caused to valued customers,” The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) also tweeted about an outage in the check-in systems of the airline across the country due to the fault in the international submarine cable.
