Faulty cable crashes Pakistan Internet

*So any Gippies in Pak encounter any outage while surfing? *

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An undersea cable carrying data between Pakistan and the outside world has developed a serious fault, virtually crippling data feeds, including the Internet, telecommunications officials said on Tuesday. http://bc.us.yahoo.com/b?P=Pyx._M6.I3rtHDVJQl7nZg0OPrH3ukLBSukAAbAt&ampT=16si4n3gc%2fX%3d1119963881%2fE%3d7666516%2fR%3dnews%2fK%3d5%2fV%3d2.1%2fW%3d8%2fY%3dYAHOO%2fF%3d1373750532%2fH%3dY2FjaGVoaW50PSJuZXdzIiBjb250ZW50PSJJbnRlcm5ldDt0ZWxlY29tbXVuaWNhdGlvbnM7aXQ7SXQ7Y3JlZGl0Ig–%2fQ%3d-1%2fS%3d1%2fJ%3d4423BECE&ampU=139l20bj5%2fN%3dW_Qnsc6.Iq0-%2fC%3d348128.6383649.7362289.1442997%2fD%3dLREC%2fB%3d2677900
The system crashed late on Monday and was still down on Tuesday afternoon. Work in many offices across the country ground to a halt as people realized it was not one of Pakistan’s regular, but usually brief, technical hitches.

“It’s a worst-case scenario. We are literally blank,” said a senior foreign banker who declined to be identified.

An official at the Karachi stock exchange said Pakistan’s main bourse was unaffected as it had its own internal trading system.

Officials at Pakistan Telecommunication Ltd (PTCA.KA), which operates the link, said the fault was in an undersea cable and had been caused by a power supply problem.

Fixing it will entail an interruption for other countries using the link, including India, Dubai and Oman, one company official said.

“To reconfigure the power supply system and set the fault right there needs to be an interruption of up to two hours,” said PTCL official Mashkoor Hussain.

He said telecommunications officials in those countries had been consulted and had given the go-ahead for the repairs. “Hopefully it will be repaired by tomorrow morning,” he added.

Airlines and credit card companies were among the businesses hit by the crash.

“It’s a total disaster,” said Nasir Ali, commercial director of the private Air Blue airline. “We have a Web-based booking system which has totally collapsed.”

PTCL provided satellite back-up for the link, which meant some people were able to get access to a very slow Internet connection, Hussain said, but users complained it was too slow to be of any use.

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Re: Faulty cable crashes Pakistan Internet

hmm no wonder all my homies from .pk werent on MSN

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haha.. so now you can rest, they didnt block you :P

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LOL, now can you provide internet access to .pk mods like johnybr, haris, minverva so they can perform their duties on GS ;>

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They can connect through satellite.

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Ok 5Watery, I have moved my dish antenna is poiting ttowsrds Pak.

hehe.. waisay pehlay sirf light jaati thi.. load shedding..

ab Internet bhi jaany laga hai :smack:

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I tried booking a flight from Karachi to Lahore on www.airblue.com for a friend of mine. Now I know why it didn't work.

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^ Oh how nice. Please provide us with a satelellite nick so that we can do that.

Its been a disaster. Pakistan Internet Exchange's network adminstrator is a good friend and he said that the system is in total disarray and troubleshooting is hard to carry out.

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There is nothing wrong with light or Internet. Wires and Girls must not be trusted at all for any thing. :(

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^ how did he get online :P

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haan Mufta Internet Service shuroo karo. I bet all those ppl jumping in the canal in Lahore had something to do with it :nook:

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..... through heavy use of Practical Science.

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if its down for everyone, then how come you are here…
your internet provider must be using a Satelite haan.??

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The canal in Lahore is an antique; even people distributing free Internet must jump into it, sometime, for Extreme-Entertainment.

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:frowning: Gizzy bhai ham se poochien dukh bhari dastan, un se baat nahie ho sakhtee hai hae ham kya kerien :frowning: phele load shedding sehte thay ab kuch din se internet kee prob aur aaj tou pora hee gaya. :crying:

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I am not using a satellite Cool breeze :snooty:

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^ yah you are using Laal Tain

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lagta hai is main tumhara hee haath hai, hmmmm. :bailan:

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5abi. I am using a Jadu ka Chiraagh

PD. Meri koi fault nahi hai. Mere haath saaf hain :blush:

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ab tum haath dho lo :stuck_out_tongue: if u know what i mean