Hanoi (VNA) – Internet speed in Vietnam is expectedto fully recover on June 11 as repairs of the two major undersea cables are completed, the Internet Service Provider (ISP) said on June 3.
Faults at the S9 and S1.7 sections of the Asia-PacificGateway (APG) cable will be fixed from June 6 to 11.
The 10,400 km-long APG boasts a capacity of 54Tbps - the largestof any network in Asia - and connects eight countries and territories in theAsia-Pacific region. It was funded by VNPT, Viettel, FPT, and CMC Telecom and putinto operation at the end of 2016.
The cable may have suffered a rupture at the S9 sectionlinking Vietnam with Singapore in late April, and broke at the S1.7 section onMay 23, causing a loss of internet connection between Vietnam and othercountries.
The Asia-America Gateway (AAG) undersea cable linkingSoutheast Asia and the US, meanwhile, is also under repair which is supposedto wrap up on June 6.
The cable previously broke at the S1H section connectingVietnam with Hong Kong (China).
In addition to the two, four other submarine cable systemsof Vietnam include the South-East Asia - Middle East - Western Europe 3 (SMW-3),the Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE-1), the TGN-Intra Asia Cable System (TGN-IA), andthe Thailand-Vietnam-Hong Kong (TVH)./.