Vietnam plans? Internet crawls as 4 of 5 submarine cables broken

ExPenhMan · Post by **ExPenhMan** » Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:59 am

You've probably heard the jokes about shark attacks on submarine cables. Seems sharks only bite VN cables. VN must have the most vulnerable undersea cables on the planet. Year after year, many times a year, service providers report breakages. Friends in VN report very slow service.

Some of the cables are shared by Cambodia, in case you've noticed a slowdown.

From VNExpress:

Headline: Internet crawls as four undersea cables need repairs

Four out of five undersea cables connecting Vietnam to the world are broken in one way or another, causing internet speeds across the country to slow to a snail’s pace.

A local internet service provider reported Monday that the Intra Asia (IA) cable has been encountering problems since last Saturday. There was a breakage at a cable section located about 130 km from a shoreline station in Singapore, causing a total loss of international data from Vietnam to Singapore through the IA cable.

The latest breakage means that only one undersea cable connecting Vietnam globally, the SMW3, remains fully functional.

Vietnam is currently connected with seven undersea cables: SMW3, AAG, IA, APG, AAE-1, SJC2 and ADC. Besides the recent breakage of the IA, problems with the AAE, AAG and APG cables that have been present since 2022 and early 2023 have yet to be fully resolved.

The SJC2 and the ADC are yet to be officially operational, while the SMW3 cable is outdated and about to be decommissioned.

The fact that Vietnam currently only has one fully functional undersea cable has caused internet speeds between Vietnam and the rest of the world to slow to a crawl.

More at link:

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/inter ... 64855.html

techietraveller84 · Post by **techietraveller84** » Tue Jan 31, 2023 12:07 pm

That seems a little too frequent to be natural...I bet China is offering a fix for them through the B&R Initiative.