The Public Telecommunications Corporation announced on Thursday that internet and phone services have been restored in the northwestern districts of Shabwa province and the Harib district in Marib, Yemen.

A source from the corporation informed Barran Press that an engineering team completed a two-day maintenance operation on the main cable in the Al-Marakhah Al-Sufla district of northwestern Shabwa. This cable had been repeatedly targeted by acts of sabotage, leading to service degradation.

The source confirmed that the engineering team replaced 300 meters of damaged cable, marking the fourth attack on this infrastructure. As a result, services including ADSL internet, 4G wireless internet, landline communications, and Yemen Mobile have returned in the districts of Al-Marakhah, Bayhan, Aysylan, and Ain in northwestern Shabwa, as well as in the Harib district of southern Marib.

Previously, internet and phone services had completely ceased in Harib and the Shabwa districts of Bayhan, Al-Marakhah, Aysylan, and Ain due to sabotage incidents affecting the fiber-optic cable between the districts of Huswain and Al-Ghaydah in Al-Mahrah province. This disruption caused significant service deterioration in the eastern provinces of Hadramaut and Al-Mahrah.

In late September, the telecommunications cable in the Arrah area of Al-Marakhah Al-Sufla district experienced sabotage, resulting in the outage of internet and phone services in multiple districts within Shabwa and Harib in Marib.