LAHORE: Telecom services remained suspended for an hour in different cities, including Lahore and Islamabad, on Telecom Day on Tuesday.

The call and Internet services of PTCL, Ufone and Telenor remained suspended as the optic fiber of the PTCL was damaged at two points.

A source in the PTCL told Dawn the fiber optic was damaged at two points -Peshawar to Kohat and Rawalpindi to Gujjar Khan.

`Owing to this, PTCL, Ufone and Telnor services remained suspended for 45 minutes on Tuesday afternoon.

The PTCL and Ufone services remained suspended in different parts of Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Gujjar Khan and Kohat while the Telenor`s in Kohat,` he said, adding the services were restored after the PTCLteams fixed the problem.

Subscribers faced inconvenience due to suspension of call and Internet services.

`Due to optical fiber cuts between Peshawar to Kohat and Rawalpindi to Gujar Khan, the Telonor`s service remained suspended in Kohat between1:13pmand1:57pm, a Telenor official said.

PTCL General Manager Imran Janjua said: `On Tuesday morning a civic agency working on an unplanned activity damaged PTCL`s underground long haul fiber cable in Kohat beingused as part ofits core national network. This cut was followed by another cut caused by a civic agency in Rawalpindi.

The dual cuts caused outages for PTCL and a few of its customers in some parts of Punjab. PTCL staff reacted immediately and were able to restore backbone connectivity within 45 minutes and all services were normalised.