Internet services in Pakistan are currently deteriorated as a majorsubmarine cable connecting Pakistan to outside world is offline.
According to details shared with ProPakistani, SEA-ME-WE-5 went offlineearlier today due to a fault that was developed near Cairo, Egypt.
Not to mention, SEA-ME-WE-5 carries major portion of Pakistan’s internettraffic. It has a design capacity of 24Tbps, which essentially servesalmost half of Pakistan’s international bandwidth needs.
Internet companies are in process of communicating their customers aboutthe service issues, as the submarine cable has gone offline.
There is no ETA available on when the submarine cable could be up andrunning again, but from sources we can confirm that the rectificationprocess could take up to 15 days.
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This is a second submarine cable that developed fault with-in a week as IMEWEwas disconnectedlinkjustfew days ago.
This calls for more submarine cables for the country to add redundancy forfor the growing needs of dynamic Pakistani internet market.
