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 [...]
Internet Submarine Cable Maintenance Work Comes to an End; Service Resumed By The Daily Star November 5, 2020 The i2i cable network, a 3,100-kilometre submarine cable connecting Bangladesh's international internet gateway (IIG) operators with Singapore, resumed service since this evening. "The upgrading activities in the Seabone cable from Chennai to Singapore which started on November [...]
Slow Internet Likely for Next 6 Days Due to Submarine Cable Maintenance: Industry Operators By Md Fazlur Rahman, The Daily Star October 26, 2020 Internet users are likely to face reduced speed for the next five days as a fibre optic cable that connects Bangladesh's international internet gateway operators with Singapore will go through emergency [...]
PLDT Completes Line Maintenance Ahead of Schedule By Ian Nicolas Cigaral, Philstar.com September 29, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Subscribers should expect network connections to get back to normal after PLDT Inc. completed an “emergency maintenance” a day ahead of original schedule. “We are happy to report that maintenance activities on the AAG submarine cable have been [...]
PLDT Assures Measures in Place to Reduce Impact of Undersea Cable Upkeep By Gabriel Pabico Lalu, Inquirer.net September 23, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Telecommunications company PLDT Inc. has assured customers that it has put in place measures to minimize the effects of its scheduled emergency maintenance activities on an undersea cable. PLDT said in a [...]
Internet Back to Normal in Vietnam As Undersea Cable Fixed By Dang Khoa, VNExpress June 30, 2020 Vietnam's Internet speed is back to normal after its international partners repaired the Asia Pacific Gateway cable. Repairs to the S9 and S1.7 branches of the cable connecting Vietnam with Singapore and Hong Kong were completed on Saturday [...]
WACS Breakage Caused by Dense, Heavy Sediment By Brendyn Lotz February 7, 2020 The first repair to the West Africa Cable System (WACS) by the crew aboard the Leon Thevenin is complete and the reason for the breakage is rather bizarre. According to a tweet from the South African National Research and Education Network (SA [...]
Good News for South Africans With Slow Internet By Jan Vermeulen, MyBroadband February 7, 2020 The repair to a break in the West Africa Cable System (WACS) submarine fibre cable has been completed two days ahead of schedule. The update comes from the South African National Research Network (SANReN), and the Tertiary Education and Research [...]
Cable Ship Leon Thevenin Heads to Angola By ITWeb Africa January 23, 2020 In a fresh announcement related to the undersea cable restoration mission, the cable vessel Leon Thevenin is said to have departed Cape Town harbour on 22 January 2020 and is heading for offshore Angola. This is where the first steps of the [...]