Submarine internet cable IMEWE (India-Middle East-Western Europe) has been repaired and the cable has been powered up for traffic use. IMEWE Segment 1 repair has been completed after almost one month of downtime.
 

The post repair system performance has been verified and undersea cable is now functioning in full throttle. Repeaters performance and splice loss are within the acceptable limits. Reportedly, the shunt fault was located at 116.7 KM from Mumbai link where the cable was observed to be dragged on sea bed by fishing liners.
 

IMEWE got damaged on March 10th,2013 after which Transworld and other Pakistani ISPs had to route traffic to other under-sea cables connected to the country. During the cable fault Transworld took necessary actions to minimize the impact on the services to its customers in Pakistan, by making alternate arrangement for internet capacity.
 

Currently 3 submarine internet cables (SMW4, EIG & TE North) are still under repair in the Mediterranean sea. The planned completion date for all 3 repairs is April 21st 2013.