Vocus' Australia Singapore Cable Breaks Causes Outages And Increased Latency Incident happened near Perth; fix still ongoing By Sebastian Moss August 2, 2021 The 4,600km Australia Singapore Cable has broken. Operator Vocus has managed to restore some services following the initial outage, but the Perth segment of the cable remains impacted. Traffic is being rerouted [...]
Vietnam's Internet Cable Breaks Twice In One Month By Khuong Nha July 20, 2021 Vietnam's internet connection via the Asia America Gateway (AAG) undersea cable broke down a mere two days after being fixed. A representative of a network service provider in Vietnam said a fault had been detected Monday at the SH1 branch of [...]
AE-1 Undersea Fiber Optic Cable Repairs Delayed And expected to complete six days later, according to the managing board of the cable. June 23, 2021 Repairs to the Asia Africa Europe 1 (AAE-1) undersea fiber optic cable will be delayed to July 1 and expected to complete six days later, according to the managing board of the cable. [...]
2020 SAT-3 & WACS Faults Possibly Caused by Mudslide June 2, 2021 Luanda, Angola - Cable breaks or faults on subsea optical cables can impact global digital connectivity and have costly ramifications for businesses and internet users. Three such incidents impacted users on the African continent in 2020 alone. Each year more than a hundred [...]
CS Sovereign Repairing Liberty Cable By Kingfisher Bulletin June 1, 2021 Global Marine is preparing to undertake an emergency fibre optic cable repair on the Liberty cable situated within UK waters. The CS Sovereign is scheduled to arrive on site at 16:00 on the 1st of June 2021 to commence works. Estimated repair location 150°06.361'N 003°13.420'W [...]
Internet In Mauritius Will Be Slow until June 1 By Muriel Edjo May 27, 2021 Internet users in Mauritius have been experiencing Internet service disruptions since the afternoon of Tuesday, May 25. These issues, which include slow traffic, will continue for the next six days. According to Mauritius Telecom, this is due to repair work [...]
Sea-Me-We-4 Maintenance Will Slow Speeds May 28 By The Daily Star May 24, 2021 Internet service across the country is likely to be slow for around eight hours on Friday, according to Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL). Users may face temporary disruption of internet services due to maintenance work of the country's first submarine [...]
Sulawesi Maluku Papua Cable System Disruption May 3, 2021 As military operations intensify in West Papua, internet services to the capital of Indonesia's Papua province have been cut. The telecommunication company, PT Telkom Indonesia, has confirmed that internet service in Jayapura was disrupted on Friday night. It said the disruption was due to disconnection of [...]
Subsea Environment Services To Decommission Tat-14 Red Penguin Associates to Advise on the Project Subsea Environmental Press Release April 30, 2021 LONDON - Subsea Environmental Services and Red Penguin Associates (advisors) formally announce they have been awarded the contract to decommission the TAT-14 telecommunications cable system. The Project Scope includes removal and recycling of shore-ends [...]
Internet Resumes After Repairs To IA and APG Complete By Nguyen Quy March 1, 2021 Vietnam's internet speed is back to normal after repair work on two international undersea internet cables disrupted last month was completed. Repairs on the disruption-prone Asia Pacific Gateway (APG), which links Vietnam with Hong Kong and Japan, finished Wednesday, two [...]