Submarine cable cut: PTCL warns of internet disruptions

KARACHI: Internet services across Pakistan may face partial disruptions during peak hours after submarine cables were cut near Jeddah, the PTCL Group confirmed on Saturday.

The company said bandwidth on submarine cables SMW4 and IMEWE has been affected. “There may be a minor decline in internet quality, but efforts are being made to minimise the impact,” a PTCL spokesperson stated.

International partners have already started repair work on the damaged cables, while PTCL’s local teams are busy providing alternate bandwidth to keep services stable.

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“Every possible effort is underway to reduce the effects of this disruption,” the spokesperson added.

Meanwhile, outage reports began to rise overnight and spiked on Saturday morning. According to monitoring site Down Detector, complaints of internet disruptions across Pakistan surged around 9:00 am, with at least 16 outage reports recorded by 10:09 am.

Authorities expect services to remain functional with minor slowdowns until full restoration of the affected cables.

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 The company has assured that services will stabilise once the repair work on the damaged cable is completed.