As we aware of the recent slowdown of internet throughout the country creating many problems for different sectors like commerce, education, health, banking and finance and to common person too.
An appeal presented by Telecom Operators Association (TOP) before Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif to tackle the situation of network slow down and requested to solve the facing internet crisis in the country. Unluckily Telecom sector already facing financial issues and with the current slowdown of internet will further impact almost 12 Billion reduction in traffic of internet.6400 Terabyte internet traffic reduced everyday burdening the Telecom sector badly. Telecom sector has a key role in all other sectors so it is necessary to take care of it.
Freelancing is improving day by day in Pakistan but due to lack of internet work of freelancers reduces impacting IT exports significantly. Many projects of freelancers are pending and at risk of termination. As it is obvious that internet slowdown is impacting almost every sector in Pakistan because now every field is working digitally. In a recent survey it is said that a country with a population of 40 million can loss UpTo USD 3M everyday. Pakistan’s population is much greater than the above given criteria so it is obvious that it’s loss would also high. Investors from other countries also hesitate to invest in a country where digital marketing is affected by internet slowdown because they would likely prefer to work online instead of daily visits by their selves . Education sector is probably affected by this slowdown because research work and other area of studies can be done easily through the internet which also save money because every student is not equally able to purchase costly books of foreign authors.
So it is our request to the PM Shahbaz Sharif to kindly sort out the issue and solve technical issues so that everyone can work smoothly without any disruption.
