Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), the state-owned telecom giant, has announced that repair work on one of its submarine cables will begin on April 14 and is expected to continue until April 20. Users in Pakistan may experience internet service degradation during evening hours throughout the maintenance period. PTCL manages three of the six undersea optical fibre cable networks that provide international connectivity to Pakistan, which together carry a combined capacity of 13 terabits per second against a current national usage of 7–8 terabits per second.