APG submarine cable to be fixed on January 6-7
The Asia-Pacific Getaway (APG) submarine cable from Vietnam to Singapore, which was crashed on December 23, 2017, will be fixed from January 6-7, according to an Internet services supplier in Vietnam.
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The repair is expected to finish on January 7.
Since the cable was broken, network operators in Vietnam have carried out backup measures to minimise damage for consumers.
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| Asia-Pacific Getaway (APG) submarine cable to be fixed on January 6-7. (Photo: VNA) |
To deal with the problem, VNPT prioritises Internet traffic on other submarine cables operating stably such as Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE-1) and Southeast Asia-Middle East-Western Europe (SMW-3) to assure the connection quality.
The 10,400km long Asia-Pacific Gateway is an undersea cable system linking 8 countries and territories in the Asia-Pacific region, namely Malaysia, Singapore, China, China’s Hong Kong and Taiwan, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Vietnam.
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(Source: VNA)
