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Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication, Shaza Fatima Khawaja, said telecom recovery teams have restored 90% of towers that went down during the floods. She said PTA USF and NTC teams were working on the ground to stabilise networks and to support emergency repairs.
The minister reported that submarine cable damage in the Red Sea also affected internet speeds. She said five cables were damaged in two waves on September 6 and 7 and one cable was hit earlier. The cumulative impact was about 1.3 terabytes of capacity. Redundancy systems and traffic re routing kept the net effect to roughly 400 gigabytes.
Shaza Fatima said restoration work focused on power water and access to tower sites. She added that emergency power solutions and fuel supply chains helped bring sites back online quickly. The minister confirmed coordination with telecom operators and international cable managers to speed repairs.
Internet monitoring shows most regions have returned to normal performance levels. Mobile voice services and SMS capacity are operating at near normal. Fixed broadband customers saw limited slowdowns while traffic was rerouted.
The government also added that contingency plans and redundancy investments reduced the overall damage and helped restore services faster.
