INTERNET SPEEDS DROP AS TYPHOONS DAMAGE CABLES

SEVERAL undersea cable systems have been damaged by recent typhoons in Hong Kong, causing slower Internet connections in Southeast Asia, including the Philippines.

service disruptions on August 27, according to the Vietnamese daily

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“Due to the recent strong typhoon in Hong Kong, multiple international undersea cable links to the city were cut, causing slowdowns in Internet connections to web and social media sites hosted of internet service providers (ISPs) in various Southeast Asian countries, including the Philippines,” PLDT said Saturday

PLDT is now working with overseas cable partners to repair

“Based on their current plans, our cable partners expect restoration work to be completed in work is being done, PLDT is taking other measures to improve Internet services for our Home and

affected cable systems, to its other doing, the multiple subsea cuts had no adverse impact to our enterprise clients and mobile and broadband closely monitoring the network to ensure voice, SMS and data services are operating at normal levels,” Yoly - dent for Corporate Communica

Converge also said three of its international submarine cables have been hit and that it would likely take four to six weeks to

“To minimize adverse effects on our network, we have been working - bits per second) of bandwidth since additional link of the same capacity week, we are expecting to activate

ILLUSTRATION BY TELEGEOGRAPHY Several underwater cable systems were damaged by recent typhoons, leaving Southeast Asia with slower Internet connection.