A gloomy weekend is anticipated for Internet users in Viet Nam, with the country’s major fiber optic cable system set for a three-day maintenance period.

People are pictured at an Internet café in Ho Chi Minh City. Tuoi Tre

The Asia-America Gateway (AAG) submarine cable system will begin three days of maintenance on Friday, a representative from Viet Nam’s SPT Telecom firm said Tuesday.

Internet speed for users in Viet Nam is therefore expected to slow down, especially when they use services or websites hosted overseas such as Facebook and Google.

However, Vu Anh Tu, deputy general director of FPT Telecom, a major Internet service provider, said the maintenance will have almost no impact on Internet connection speed or quality for the company’s subscribers.

Only the section between Singapore and Viet Nam will be maintained, and this part of the whole system carries merely a small proportion of FPT Telecom’s traffic, he told newswire VnExpress.

Other Internet carriers, such as Viettel and VNPT, did not comment on the issue.

(Source: Tuoi Tre News)