The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) on Monday announced a week-long maintenance on a submarine cable to “repair a fault by international cable consortium”.
The activity will start on April 14 (Tuesday), and could last till April 20 (Monday), the PTCL said in a social media post on X.
“During this period, customers may face internet service degradation during evening hours,” the company said, regretting the inconvenience.
The state-owned telecom giant manages three undersea optical fibre cable networks that provide international internet connectivity to Pakistan.
The combined capacity of all six submarine cable systems serving the country, including three PTCL cable systems, two submarine cable systems of Trans World Associates (Pvt) Ltd and PEACE cable of Cyber Internet Services, stands at 13 terabits per second (Tbps), while national usage currently ranges between 7 and 8 Tbps.
Last November, Pakistan’s internet connectivity was boosted with the launch of the South-East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe (SEA-ME-WE) 6 cable.
The cable has a total capacity of over 100 terabits per second and it will provide “one of the lowest-latency routes between Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Western Europe”.
