whats the latest with the Pakistan lines/internet?
is it fixed yet?
how much longer will it take?
what are they doing?
why are they so slow ? 
why didnt they have backup?
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yeah ..
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apparently, phone calls aren’t going through either. That’s just great!! 
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Er, what happened?
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It’s fixed… :halo: 2 days ago i think.. cuz we called to Pakistan juz yesterday.. 
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its fixed
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Not yet... The team to fix it has just reached the area (thats a 50 km area) in the Arabian Sea where they believe the problem lies and they will be doing the scanning starting from today to pinpoint the exact location and nature of the problem... and if everything goes as planned than it will take them 3 - 4 days. and if they have to ask for more help / instruments / new stuff then you can easily add 2 - 3 days into it... So its far from fixed ...
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Pakistan’s call centre hopes severed by cable fault Sun Jul 3, 3:30 AM ET
KARACHI (AFP) - When workers across Pakistan started frantically clicking their mouses and checking their phones last week it seemed like just another one of the country’s sporadic telecommunications breakdowns.
Nearly a week later, eight million Internet users were still offline and less than 20 percent of the normal capacity for international telephone calls was available.
Industry figures fear the problem could prevent Pakistan’s fledgling call centres emulating the success of those in neighbouring India, which have reaped rich rewards from the global outsourcing phenomenon.
The disruption was caused by a fault in a power cable feeding Pakistan’s sole fibre-optic international telecoms link deep below the Arabian Sea – and it remained broken.
“It has definitely caused millions of dollars potential losses and a lot of intangible damage you cannot quantify,” Farrukh Aslam, president of the Call Centres Association of Pakistan, said.
After crucial liberalisation of the industry in recent years, Pakistan now has around 25 call centres which employ about 2,500 people and have a revenue of 75 million dollars.
They can offer foreign companies a cheap, English-speaking workforce while simultaneously benefiting their own employees. Average call centre wages are 8,000 dollars a year, far greater than the Pakistani average of 736 dollars.
The size of the business pales in comparison to the 14 billion dollars in revenue earned by Indian call centres, but operators here had hoped to attract around 10 percent of that within the next two or three years.
They had a rude wake up call on June 27 when the fault developed in the cable, which is owned by a consortium of 92 companies. Singtel of Singapore acts as its operating agent.
A repair ship set sail last week from Dubai but experts say it could be another week or more before the problem is fixed.
The breakdown has highlighted a major infrastructure problem. While India has five fibre link cables and a sixth is on its way, Pakistan has only one.
“How pathetic it is on the part of planners and the leadership that despite making tall claims of revolutionising the sector they are banking on only one fibre optic link to connect with the outer world,” said Aslam.
Pakistan’s minister for the IT and telecom sector, Awais Leghari, said he was concerned by the cable failure.
“Unfortunately this incident will send the wrong message to the international community, especially to those thinking of setting up call centres in Pakistan,” Leghari was quoted as saying in local newspapers.
Not only call centres but also online banking and airlines are suffering.
“All our business including reservations, ticketing, check-ins and 500 agents all around the world are web-based and it was all affected badly,” said Nasir Ali, director of Airblue, one of Pakistan’s growing number of private airlines.
“We had to switch to manual work and that was very difficult for us. Besides, we suffered severe damage to our market credibility,” he said.
State-run Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL), a 26 per cent stake in which was recently sold to Etisalat of the United Arab Emirates as part of Pakistan’s privatisation plans, is trying to forestall future mishaps.
“We have already an agreement in hand with a consortium of 19 companies which is laying a submarine cable and by October this year it would be operative,” said PTCL’s senior vice president for special projects, Mashkoor Hussain.
He said the firm is also in talks with India about joining a cable near their border.
“PTCL should have been blamed not for the cable fault but its lack of foresight, because despite our repeated warnings it could not arrange another cable or any other effective alternative,” said V.A. Abdi, general secretary of Pakistan Internet Service Providers Association.
“These are all bureaucratic and political lies,” said Aslam, who left his home city of Lahore to study in the United States in late 1983.
“I am ruined and am now thinking of packing up and going back to the US.”
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Xcom wat i meant was that internet and phone lines are working now, dunno know bout the industrial sector
p.s i am from pak
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its still not fixed
will take at least a week longer from wot ive heard.
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they’re not working yet. why do u say they are? and since when?
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^ fone lines and internet both are working for us!
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Impulse i think i am using internet and i think i am online and i AM from pakistan…
so wat does dat mean…
i am using ur phone line ?
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ohhhh
I was wondering why i wasnt getting any emails from back home
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but on the news they say the cable hasnt yet been fixed. (read the article some1 posted in the posts above).
maybe u r using the ADSL/satellite or soemthing else.
r u telling me that all of Pakistans internet is working and the cable in the Arabian sea has been fixed?
1 more question…did u internet stop working in anytime since last week at all or r u one of the people who werent affected ?
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Al the yahoo chat addicts would be almost dead by now 
unn ka nashaa toot raha hooga 
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Stop rolling eyes on each other girls 
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for some ppl its working for some it dosent .. Allah ka marzi ..
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in that case maybe it did them good.
but im confused now. some people say problem is fixed, others say its not fixed.
can some1 intelligent tell me the facts please 
preferably a guy
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i think something really is wrong
I havent recieved any email for the last couple of days
and i sent an email today morning - which was returned - with the message that it couldnt be delivered 