SEA-ME-WE-3 fault: PTCL satellite backup satisfactory -Business Recorder Pakistan

WASHINGTON (July 03 2005)(APP): Noted Pakistani and Pakistani-American businessmen have said that they had been operating almost normally despite the reported damage caused in the SEA-ME-WE-3 fibre optic internet cable on Monday at the floor of the Arabian Sea, some 50km south of Karachi.

However, this has been a major blow to the IT industries both in Pakistan and India. Some better-funded Indian call centres had switched over to satellite backup systems, where available, but that not all centres had invested in such connections.

While in Pakistan, Pak Telecom Company Ltd (PTCL), Pakistan's major backbone provider scrambled to provide immediate satellite backup systems on priority to major Business Process Outsourcers and International Call Centres