Asia-America cable breaks again, internet destabilised

Viet Nam’s international internet connection would be unstable for a week due to another break in the Asia-America Gateway cable, a local technology news website has said.

A statement from AAG, an international undersea cable system linked to the southern beach town of Vung Tau, said it would take until at least today for repairs to be completed.

The cable broke for the first time in March this year. The problem was fixed by the end of the month.

AAG said Viet Nam’s major internet suppliers – including the Viet Nam Post and Telecommunication Group (VNPT), military-run Viettel Telecom, and FPT Telecom – would all be affected, and users in Viet Nam’s southern region could expect the worst problems. Websites and email would be hard to access, and chat and video calling services would be more difficult to use. The 20,000-kilometre cable is the only one connecting Southeast Asia with the US.

Posted by VBN on Aug 6 2011. Filed under Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry