Vietnam faces a major internet blackout with three undersea cables down, sparking sabotage suspicions amid geopolitical tensions.
According to the Vietnam News Agency, there have been significant internet outages this week due to the failure of three of Vietnam's five international undersea internet cables. This marks the second significant outage in the nation in less than a year.
The Intra Asia (IA) cable had an incident on its S1 branch connecting to Singapore while problems on the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) and the Asia-Africa-Europe-1 (AAE-1) have not been fixed yet.
The failure of the three cable systems has seriously affected the speed of Vietnam's international internet connections, with internet users having found it difficult to access websites and network services with servers abroad.
-VNA
The five submarine fiber optic cables that connect Vietnam to the rest of the globe are the APG, IA, AAE-1, Southeast Asia-Middle East-Western Europe (SMW-3), and ...
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