The repair ship headed towards the site of damaged submarine Internet cable SEAMEWE-3 is likely to reach the destination on Friday afternoon. A subsidiary of United Arab Emirates (UAE) based Etisalat, E-Marine's ship left the port on Wednesday at 1800 hours to investigate and carry out repair work at 35 nautical miles south-west of the Karachi coastline.
Sources told Business Recorder on Thursday, that the ship is in regular contact with the senior officials of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL).
The ship has engineers, technicians and divers onboard with equipment needed for the job.
An Internet Service Provider (ISPs) told Business Recorder that the alternate arrangements made by the PTCL is serving only 2.7 mega bit virtual access as compared to 171Mb (STM 155Mb+16Mb of Pakistan Internet Exchange) that was being received before the suspension of SEAMEWE-3 on 27th June.
Another ISPs are also virtually receiving lesser Mega bits from the PTCL against its claims. The reason is that the PTCL has put the pool of all ISPs on shared bandwidth. So there is a maximum limit of 2.7 Mb, a source said.
The PTCL have been given half of what they have in Pakistan Internet Exchange (12Mb) which is 6Mb and it is also getting out-bound traffic of only 33 percent of 6Mb.
According to PTCL's analytical graph, on average the 'out-bound traffic' is looming between 31 to 37 percent of the maximum allowed by the phone utility. Normally the ISPs used to get 46Mb, now they are receiving only 2.7Mb.