Submarine cable incident record
Indian Ocean cable incident — Confirmed — 2025-09-17
Pakistan officials report several undersea cables cut near Yemen, with repairs expected to take four to five weeks.
Confirmed
- Public classification
- Confirmed
- Affected cable or system
- Confirmed regional incident; no cable was deterministically attributed
- Affected countries
- Pakistan
- Region
- Indian Ocean
- Network state
- Network signal stale
- Physical state
- Physical fault confirmed by report
Lifecycle
- Occurred:
- Network record became stale: — physical state unchanged.
Original supporting evidence
- The Ministry of Information Technology told a National Assembly panel that fixing the undersea internet cables cut near Yemen will take four to five weeks.
- PTCL confirmed that reduced internet speed is a result of the submarine cable fault, leading to partial service disruption nationwide.
Public-network measurements can support a Suspected record but cannot prove a physical cable fault or repair. Network recovery can result from rerouting and does not establish physical repair. Confirm operational decisions with the cable owner or carrier.