The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) announced on Friday that internet service providers are increasing the bandwidth to fix the internet issues across the country.
Internet users across Pakistan are facing connectivity issues following technical faults in the international submarine cable near Egypt.
According to the details, Trans World Associates (TWA) has communicated the service degradation on the international connectivity towards Europe on the SMW5 cable system due to a subsea fault in the cable system. PTA issued a statement in this regard which reads: “Work is underway through international counterparts in Egypt to rectify the fault at the earliest.”
Meanwhile, the PTA assured that it was monitoring the situation and will continue to update internet users in Pakistan. The telecommunication authority, however, didn’t mention any timeline regarding the restoration of services.
According to the reports, “While the work to remove the fault is continuing, the internet service providers (ISPs) are being shifted to the spare capacity maintained by the company,” said a TWA senior official quoted by a news media outlet.
TWA network caters for around 40% of internet traffic in Pakistan.
