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Vietnam’s Undersea Internet Cable Repaired Ahead Of Schedule

After 18 days of slowed internet access to international websites, connections are back to normal in Vietnam after repairs to the Asia-America Gateway Cable were completed late last week.


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According to ICT News, welding of the broken cable was completed on the afternoon of January 22 and internet speeds returned to 100% on January 23.

The cable’s operator had previously announced that repairs would be finished on January 24.

No reason has been given for the cause of the break though some have speculated that sharks, mistaking the cable for a school of fish, were to blame.

FPT Telecom general director, Nguyen Van Khoa has previously faulted the poor design quality of the notoriously unreliable, 20,000km, $560 million cable:

 “I must say that the AAG cable system was built to a below-standard technical design, which is the major reason behind its frequent fractures,” he told Tuoi Tre last September.

While we hope that it will be a long time before another cable rupture, Khoa’s words don’t exactly inspire hope considering the most recent repairs were just patchwork and didn’t address the larger issue of its poor design.

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