{"id":846964,"date":"2024-08-22T11:17:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T05:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=846964"},"modified":"2024-08-22T11:18:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T05:48:37","slug":"a-faulty-undersea-internet-cable-caused-recent-internet-disruptions-in-pakistan-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/22\/a-faulty-undersea-internet-cable-caused-recent-internet-disruptions-in-pakistan-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"A faulty undersea internet cable caused recent internet disruptions in Pakistan, official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: A faulty undersea internet cable caused slower internet connections for millions of Pakistanis in recent weeks, but the problem will be resolved by later this month, the country&#8217;s top telecommunications official said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of the country&#8217;s population has faced problems in using and accessing social media platforms, including the popular WhatsApp. Pakistan has 110 million internet users, and up to 40% slower internet speeds have affected nearly half the country&#8217;s 241 million population. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: A faulty undersea internet cable caused slower internet connections for millions of Pakistanis in recent weeks, but the problem will be resolved by later this month, the country&#8217;s top telecommunications official said Wednesday. Nearly half of the country&#8217;s population has faced problems in using and accessing social media platforms, including the popular WhatsApp. Pakistan has 110 million internet users, and up to 40% slower internet speeds have affected nearly half the country&#8217;s 241 million population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}