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Damage to fibre optic cables disrupts PTCL, cellular services in Pakistan

Dawood Ibrahim

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PTCL services and cellular services in different parts of the country were disrupted Monday owing to the severing of a major fibre optic cable.

Internet subscribers of different cellular companies also faced difficulties due to the disruption caused, it has been reported.

PTCL officials said efforts were underway to restore the services.





According to Dawn News, services remained suspended in some parts of the country, while users in other areas experienced delay in the service.

Imran Janjua, General Manager Public Outreach, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) said teams have been dispatched to identify the cause of disruption.

PTCL officials also clarified that their land-line services are working fine across the country.

In Balochistan, services across Khuzdar, Sohrab, Uthal and Hub were suspended.

PTCL officials informed that services at four different locations of Karachi and Balochistan were disrupted.

Subsequently, users from Hyderabad and Multan experienced the outage.

The outage has also brought to halt Pakistan Railway's e-ticketing system.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1304593/da...s-disrupts-ptcl-cellular-services-in-pakistan
 
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