{"id":70937,"date":"2025-09-18T05:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/70937\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T05:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:17:09","slug":"internet-speed-in-pakistan-remains-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/70937\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Speed in Pakistan Remains Slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-fusion-400 wp-image-29932\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/slider01_20250917-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Cable faults off Saudi Arabia slow Pakistan internet, with evening disruptions and restoration delays expected.\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\"  data- data-orig-\/>By Naima Tanoli, Bloom Pakistan<br \/>September 17, 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Users are facing issues sending videos and messages, while delayed message delivery has affected businesses and online classes.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>The slowdown is due to a fault in undersea internet cables near Saudi Arabia, which has not yet been fixed, causing serious difficulties for consumers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PTCL confirmed that reduced internet speed is a result of the submarine cable fault, leading to partial service disruption nationwide. The impact is more noticeable during evening hours. However, efforts are being made to improve internet speed.<\/p>\n<p>PTCL has not given a specific timeline for full restoration but assured that the fault is being addressed as quickly as possible. Until repairs are complete, users will continue to face service issues.<\/p>\n<p>Officials added that repairing undersea cables requires specialized ships and favorable weather conditions, which means the process could take weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Read more\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Naima Tanoli, Bloom PakistanSeptember 17, 2025 Users are facing issues sending videos and messages, while delayed message&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[48944,18,19,285,17,2214,48945,36040,33154,82,5646],"class_list":{"0":"post-70937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-cable-fault","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-internet","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-pakistan","14":"tag-ptcl","15":"tag-red-sea","16":"tag-submarine-cable","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-telecoms"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}