Internet crawls as four undersea cables need repairs

A person measures Internet speeds on a PC and a mobile phone in Hanoi. Photo by VnExpress/Luu Quy

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.

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