Combined Outages Affect WIOCC Clients In Multiple African Countries WIOCC Press Release February 23, 2021 On Tuesday, 16th February at 19:16 UTC, the WIOCC Network Operation Centre (NOC) observed interruption to a significant number of client services between Djibouti and Marseille, France on the SeaMeWe5 submarine cable, affecting voice, data and internet services in multiple [...]
Submarine Cable Glitch Slows Internet in Bangladesh By bdnew24.com August 9, 2020 Internet users in Bangladesh are experiencing slow speed or outages due to a technical glitch in the second submarine cable. Efforts are underway to carry out the necessary repairs, Moshiur Rahman, managing director of Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Ltd, told bdnews24.com on Sunday. [...]
WACS Cable Outage Resolved By Admire Moyo, ITWeb April 6, 2020 Repairs at submarine cable the West Africa Cable System (WACS) are complete. This is according to the South African National Research & Education Network (SA NREN), a major user of the cable, which first reported the undersea cable’s outage on 27 March. In latest [...]
Submarine Cable Fault Disrupts Internet Services in Pakistan By Usman Hanif October 29, 2019 KARACHI: Internet users faced difficulties in accessing online content throughout the county after an international submarine cable developed a technical fault, apparently due to Cyclone Kyarr in Arabian Sea on Tuesday. Source privy to the development told The Express Tribune that the [...]
Seacom Submarine System Goes Down, Affecting Services Into Europe By Tech Central October 23, 2019 Seacom said on Wednesday that the submarine cable system it operates along Africa’s east coast is experiencing a “service-affecting outage”. The incident began at midnight South African time. “Seacom is experiencing a service-affecting outage on its subsea cable system between [...]
Tonga Fibre-optic Cable Outage Relieved by Satellite Kacific Press Release January 21, 2019 Auckland, New Zealand – Since 8:30pm yesterday evening (Sunday 20th January) Tonga Cable has been suffering an outage in the submarine cable network that connects the island nation to the outside world, plunging the island nation into digital isolation. The outage is [...]
Basslink Independent Report Says Cable Outage Cause Unknown By Corinne Reichert, ZDNet December 3, 2018 Basslink has revealed that an independent report by Cable Consulting International (CCI) has found that the cause of the December 2015 outage is still "unknown", countering claims by Hydro Tasmania and the state of Tasmania. "Hydro Tasmania and the state [...]
