A day after countrywide disruption, internet services in Pakistan were fully restored earlier today.
In a statement by the PTCL spokesman, the company regretted any inconvenience that had been caused by the disruption in services.
A spokesperson for Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) also confirmed the restoration of internet services, adding that the SEAMEWE 4 was restored at 1:35am while IMEWE was restored at 4:13am.
Good News! We are pleased to inform you that the SMW-4 submarine cable fault has been rectified and internet services have been restored.
We regret any inconvenience caused and thank you for your patience. pic.twitter.com/hKvE8RcznF
— PTCL (@PTCLOfficial) October 29, 2019
PTCL further clarified that submarine cable AAE1 was never down during the recent outage and said it was misreported by certain quarters.
On Tuesday, internet users faced sudden disruption which was later identified as fault in submarine cable when PTCL informed a user that the problem is due to a fault.
“Due to international submarine cable fault, internet services have been impacted in Pakistan. Technical teams are working on fully restoring internet services in the shortest possible time. PTCL sincerely regrets this temporary inconvenience caused to valued customers,” tweeted PTCL.
The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) also tweeted about an outage in the check-in systems of the airline across the country due to the fault in the international submarine cable.
