Two undersea cables snapped simultaneously last week.Repairs on the cables are expected to be completed next month.
While invisible and unknown to most, the network of fiber optic cables under the water are crucial in enabling the global internet by allowing for the high-speed transfer of high volumes of telecommunications signals across the world. Tanguy said that some cables are considerably more expensive to use than other cables, and some companies will only have capacity on one or two cables.Vodacom spokesperson, Byron Kennedy, said that some “disruption in traffic flows,” are to be expected from the cable breaks.
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