The snail-paced Internet connection in Viet Nam, caused by multiple submarine cable systems last week, may continue well until the end of January, just before Tet, or Lunar New Year, holiday begins.

A map detailing the issues occurring along Viet Nam’s 3 submarine cable systems in early January 2017

Problems occurring on 3 of Viet Nam’s major submarine cable systems since last weekend have significantly hampered the connectivity of all local Internet services, especially that provided by military-run Viettel.

The first incident was discovered on January 7, with a leakage spotted along a section of the Asia- Pacific Gateway (APG) off Da Nang, reducing traffic to only about 20%.

A power loss was recorded along a section of the Asia America Gateway (AAG) on the following day, compromising the connection with servers in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States.

On January 9, the Intra Asia (IA) cable network was broken and fixed within a day, before another problem was found on the same network on Wednesday morning, which arose from a power loss in Singapore.

The problem of the AAG network is expected to be repaired by January 27, or the Lunar New Year’s Eve, according to newswire Bizlive.

In the meantime, there has yet to be any exact timeline for the recovery of the other two cable systems.

(Source: Tuoitrenews)