{"id":61229,"date":"2025-01-02T23:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T18:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=61229"},"modified":"2025-01-03T10:33:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T05:33:58","slug":"pta-announces-internet-slowdown-due-to-submarine-cable-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/pta-announces-internet-slowdown-due-to-submarine-cable-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"PTA warns of internet slowdown due to submarine cable fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pta-to-access-user-data-browsing-history-after-vpn-registration\/\">PTA<\/a>) has issued an update on the recent internet slowdown in the country, saying that a fault has been reported in the submarine cable near Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is to inform the general public that a fault has been reported in the submarine cable AAE-1 near Qatar (one of the seven international undersea cables connecting Pakistan for international internet traffic),\u201d the PTA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The authority added that the relevant teams are working to resolve the fault.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis (fault) may affect the internet and broadband user experience across Pakistan. PTA is monitoring the situation and will keep updating telecom users accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that there has been a significant drop in internet services across the country, affecting millions of users.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, popular platforms like<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/whatsapp-to-stop-working-on-these-mobile-phones-from-january-2025\/\"> WhatsApp<\/a>, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok have either been suspended or are working at reduced speeds, leaving users frustrated with limited access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued an update on the recent internet slowdown in the country, saying that a fault has been reported in the submarine cable near Qatar. \u201cThis is to inform the general public that a fault has been reported in the submarine cable AAE-1 near Qatar (one of the seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":61230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,8],"tags":[4913,4210,158],"class_list":["post-61229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-technology","tag-pakistan-telecommunication-authority","tag-pta","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61248,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61229\/revisions\/61248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}