{"id":83095,"date":"2024-07-31T21:26:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T21:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/internet-services-restored-across-country-as-interruption-successfully-resolved-pta\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T21:26:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T21:26:16","slug":"internet-services-restored-across-country-as-interruption-successfully-resolved-pta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/internet-services-restored-across-country-as-interruption-successfully-resolved-pta\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet services restored across country as interruption successfully resolved: PTA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said on Wednesday that internet services were restored across the country following an earlier interruption.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is notified that the internet\/broadband is now available across Pakistan. Short interruption\/degradation was successfully resolved. The exact issue is being investigated by PTA,\u201d the authority said in an update around 10pm.<\/p>\n

Internet services provided by Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) earlier suffered disruption across the country today, the company said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPTCL network is facing data outage in various cities due to which connectivity has been affected,\u201d PTCL spokesperson Amir Pasha told Dawn.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur teams are actively working to resolve and rectify the issue at the earliest,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

PTA spokesperson Malahat Obaid attributed the disruption to a \u201cfault in the PTCL system\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cInternet\/broadband users may experience degraded services during peak hours,\u201d she said, explaining that the disruption may affect PTCL users and those internet service providers using PTCL\u2019s bandwidth.<\/p>\n

The spokesperson added teams were currently fixing the fault while the PTA was monitoring the situation till internet\/broadband services were back to normal.<\/p>\n

Dr Shahid Farooq Alvi, president of the Pakistan Telecommunication Access Provider Association (PTAPA), also confirmed to Dawn.com<\/em> that PTCL\u2019s internet services \u201call over Pakistan\u201d were not working.<\/p>\n

He said PTCL provided 70 per cent of the internet services in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cCompanies were also not informed about when the system would start providing internet,\u201d the PTAPA<\/a> president said.<\/p>\n

Global internet monitor Netblocks said, \u201clive network data [showed] a nation-scale disruption to internet connectivity in Pakistan\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cMetrics show national connectivity at 24pc of ordinary levels, corroborating user reports of a widespread outage,\u201d it said in a post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Downdetector<\/a>, which tracks outages, showed a spike in reported outages of PTCL services from around 1:30pm onwards.<\/p>\n

This screengrab, taken at around 4pm on July 31, shows reported outages of PTCL\u2019s internet services.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

The majority of the complaints, 73 per cent, reported \u201cinternet\u201d problems while 23pc had reported \u201ctotal blackout\u201d.<\/p>\n

Cities<\/a> from where most of the complaints had been reported included Karachi, Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Lahore, Faisalabad and Multan, Downdetector stated.<\/p>\n

A perusal of X showed complaints from several users, with the PTCL replying to three of them between 11am and 1pm.<\/p>\n

Internet services had suffered brief disruption<\/a> in parts of the country in April, with Netblocks stating that operators attributed the disturbance to a \u201ctechnical issue\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said on Wednesday that internet services were restored across the country following an earlier interruption. \u201cIt is notified that the internet\/broadband is now available across Pakistan. Short interruption\/degradation was successfully resolved. The exact issue is being investigated by PTA,\u201d the authority said in an update around 10pm. 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