Just over a year after series of incidents affected Vietnam’s international communications network, there have been some new issues: three of Vietnam’s five undersea internet cables are reported to be down.
The outage was reported by state media over the weekend. It seems that the Intra Asia (IA) cable had an incident on its S1 branch connecting to Singapore, while there have also been problems on the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) and the Asia-Africa-Europe-1 (AAE-1) that have not been fixed yet.
While it’s not clear how bad the failure of the three cable systems has been, it does seem to have seriously affected the speed of…