Undersea cable cut slows down Internet in Vietnam
Undersea cable cut slows down Internet in Vietnam
Internet connection in Vietnam has been hit by a submarine cable system cut off the country’s southern coast, a telecom company announced Wednesday.
The cut was identified late Tuesday on the AAG (Asia America Gateway) cable system connecting Vung Tau and Hong Kong at a location around 18km from the Vietnamese coastal city, VNPT International, a subsidiary of the state-run telecom giant VNPT, said on its website.
Subscribers of such Internet service providers as VNPT, FPT, and Viettel can experience disruption or slower speed, especially when using services hosted by servers outside Vietnam, due to the incident, the company warned.
VNPT International said it is working with the administrators of the AAG and the international companies that operate cable ships to work out solutions.
A cable ship, or cable layer, is a deep-sea vessel designed and used to lay underwater cables for telecommunications, electric power transmission, or other purposes.
The company will also apply measures to ensure Internet quality in Vietnam, it added.
In late November 2013, the AAG cable section between Vung Tau and Hong Kong was also cut off, resulting in Internet disruption that affected around 60 percent of the users in the Southeast Asian country.
The AAG is a 20,000-kilometer long submarine communications cable system, connecting Southeast Asia with the U.S. mainland, across the Pacific Ocean via Guam and Hawaii.
Development of the AAG cable system was funded at a cost of US$500 million by 19 partners, including Vietnam’s Viettel and VNPT.
The cable has encountered frequent breaks and outages since it was ready for service in late 2009.
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