Report by Engineering Post
Pakistan was all set to benefit from the 2Africa Submarine Cable System which will quite expectedly positively contribute towards significantly enhancing internet speed and reliability.
According to some reports, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has facilitated through Transworld Associates as the landing party, the cable was part of a global initiative involving Meta and, Vodafone.
The 45 thousand kilometers long cable, duly equipped with the state-of-the-art SDMI technology and a capacity of 180 Tbpa, will be connecting as many as 46 locations across Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
Its installation work at Hawksbay in Karachi started in the first week of December 2024 while deep sea laying was planned to commence in April 2025.
Once hopefully operational in April 2025, the reports said, the system will provide Pakistan with 24 terabytes of bandwidth thus significantly improving the performance of platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.
Presently, Pakistan was relying on approximately 8 terabytes of bandwidth from seven existing cables.
Pakistan was grappling with slow internet speeds and frequent disruptions, ranked 100th out of 111 countries in mobile internet speeds and 141wt out of 158 countries in broadband speeds, according to Ookla’s Specialized Global Index, the reports added.
