While Pakistan continues to struggle with persistent internet slowdowns and connectivity degradation, the world’s largest cloud infrastructure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), also faced a global outage this week — underlining a deeper truth: the world’s internet, from Silicon Valley to Islamabad, rests on fragile digital foundations. Pakistan’s Internet Feels Like […]
Author: Rashid Mehmood
Pakistan’s PakSat-1R Nears End of Life as Services Migrate to PakSat-MM1
Pakistan’s long-serving communications satellite, PakSat-1R, is approaching the end of its operational life, prompting a gradual transition of television and data services to the newly launched PakSat-MM1 (also called PakSat-MM1R). Background: PakSat-1R’s Service Legacy PakSat-1R was launched in August 2011 using China’s Long March 3B/E rocket and placed at 38° […]

