{"id":164981,"date":"2025-09-18T07:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/164981\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T07:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:44:07","slug":"internet-speed-in-pakistan-remains-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/164981\/","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.newsbeep.com\/us\/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>Users are facing issues sending videos and messages, while delayed message delivery has affected businesses and online classes.\u00a0The slowdown is due to a fault in undersea internet cables near Saudi Arabia, which has not yet been fixed, causing serious difficulties for consumers.<\/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":164982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[99697,174,16236,99698,69985,84138,74,10383],"class_list":["post-164981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-cable-fault","tag-internet","tag-pakistan","tag-ptcl","tag-red-sea","tag-submarine-cable","tag-technology","tag-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}