Internet connectivity across Pakistan showed signs of improvement on Tuesday after being severely disrupted by a series of global and regional outages. Industry experts said that service providers had begun rerouting data through overland fiber networks from China in an effort to restore capacity and stabilize performance.
Despite these measures, recovery has remained inconsistent, with many users in different parts of the country still experiencing patchy access and reduced speeds as work continues to repair damaged undersea cables. Data from outage monitoring service Downdetector showed that complaints about Cybernet’s network surged throughout the day, with several sharp spikes recorded between late morning and late evening. Of the reported issues, 75% were tied to internet connectivity problems, 14% involved complete service blackouts, and 11% related to difficulties accessing websites, according to the platform’s statistics.
Cybernet is among Pakistan’s top internet service and network infrastructure providers, operating one of the country’s submarine cable landing stations while delivering broadband, enterprise connectivity, and wholesale bandwidth services.
The disruptions began when Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a global outage. Since AWS hosts the core infrastructure for countless applications and websites worldwide, the failure of one of its main systems triggered widespread delays, leaving internet users facing slow or disrupted access across multiple platforms.
Adding to the problem, the PEACE submarine cable experienced a major cut. The damage occurred somewhere between the Red Sea and Europe, and experts say it will take time to pinpoint the exact location and nature of the fault before a repair vessel can be dispatched to fix it.
Additionally, the submarine cable system connecting between India, the Middle East, and Western Europe, called I ME WE, is down for Pakistan as well.