{"id":85185,"date":"2025-09-06T11:59:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=85185"},"modified":"2025-09-06T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:59:45","slug":"submarine-cable-cut-may-affect-internet-countrywide-ptcl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/submarine-cable-cut-may-affect-internet-countrywide-ptcl\/","title":{"rendered":"Submarine cable cut may affect internet countrywide: PTCL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Internet users across the country may experience disruption due to submarine cable cuts in Saudi waters near Jeddah, according to Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/telenor-pakistan-ptcl-ufone-deal-extended-till-september-2025\/\">PTCL<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to inform that submarine cable cuts have occurred in Saudi waters near Jeddah, impacting partial bandwidth capacity on SMW4 and IMEWE systems,&#8221; said the internet provider company in a post shared on their social handle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a result, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/kaspersky-uncovers-100-unique-infostealer-malware-types-targeting-internet-users\/\">internet users<\/a> in Pakistan may experience some service degradation during peak hours.<\/p>\n<p>Our international partners are working on a priority to resolve the issue, while our local teams are actively arranging alternative bandwidth to minimize the impact,&#8221; the post read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding during this time,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>Outage reports spiked on Saturday morning, according to data from Down Detector, which showed disruptions building up overnight before a surge in complaints by 9am.<\/p>\n<p>At least 16 reports of outage were seen on the graph at 10:09 am.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in August 2025, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/telenor-pakistan-ptcl-ufone-deal-extended-till-september-2025\/\">PTCL<\/a>\u00a0services were disrupted in some parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to details released on Tuesday, there was a technical fault in PTCL\u2019s fiber optics. A PTCL spokesperson said that staff were working to resolve the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said that PTCL will soon be fully restored across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Internet users across the country may experience disruption due to submarine cable cuts in Saudi waters near Jeddah, according to Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL). &#8220;We would like to inform that submarine cable cuts have occurred in Saudi waters near Jeddah, impacting partial bandwidth capacity on SMW4 and IMEWE systems,&#8221; said the internet provider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":36130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6499,19977],"class_list":["post-85185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ptcl","tag-internet-disruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85185","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85186,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85185\/revisions\/85186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}