Underwater wire repairs causes large internet outage opposite Pakistan

The repairs especially influenced Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) and a sister association Ufone are down in several tools of Pakistan.

Services for both a companies are reportedly down in tools of Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and other cities.

PTCL, in a Facebook post, reliable that a services were impacted and they were operative to revive them.

We are now confronting vital outage on a network due to that internet use to some of a business is impacted. #PTCL
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— PTCL (@PTCLOfficial) December 26, 2016

We are now confronting vital outage on a network due to that internet use to some of a business is impacted. #PTCL
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— PTCL (@PTCLOfficial) December 26, 2016

However, a internet use providers were incompetent to yield a timeframe on when a problem will be resolved.

Earlier, some amicable media users came adult with reports that they got programmed calls from PTCL, informing them about a designed upgradation activity on Monday.

PTCL landline, DSL, Ufone mobile services have totally dead for users opposite country. Exact count of impacted users or areas is still not known.

Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) act as a internet gateway to Pakistan and yield bandwidth to internal internet use providers. TWA and PTCL are connected with 4 undersea fiber ocular cables that embody I-ME-WE, SEA-ME-WE-3, SEA-ME-WE-4 and TWA-1.

The country’s internet trade is now using on SEA-ME-WE-3and TWA-1 and catering to a whole telecommunications traffic.

SEA-ME-WE 4 provides a telecommunications couple between Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Egypt, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria and France.

The wire is approximately 18,800 kilometres long, and provides a primary internet fortitude between South East Asia, a Indian subcontinent, a Middle East and Europe.

Article source: http://www.suchtv.pk/pakistan/general/item/47489-underwater-cable-damage-causes-massive-internet-outage-across-pakistan.html