Pakistan’s internet services returned to normal on Friday after the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority said the SEA-ME-WE 5 subsea cable fault detected a day earlier had been fully rectified.
PTA said traffic was rerouted through alternate international links during repairs to limit disruption, while it worked with Transworld Associates to identify the still-undisclosed cause.
SEA-ME-WE 5 is one of only two subsea systems serving Pakistan and carries about 1.7 Tbps of capacity, versus roughly 800 Gbps on SEA-ME-WE-4.
The outage adds to repeated faults on the SEA-ME-WE 5 route in recent years, highlighting the risks of relying on limited international cable capacity.