Massive Internet outage — First cable repair ship arrives at quadruple cable break

Orange Marine cable layer Léon Thévenin has arrived at the site of one of four major undersea fibre cable breaks. A second ship, Global Marine’s C.S. Sovereign, remains en route.on 14 March, causing severe Internet disruptions in South Africa and all along Africa’s Western coast.

The Microsoft Azure region in South Africa was also offline for several hours, leaving companies like payments provider Yoco unable to function. Network infrastructure company WIOCC, an investor in WACS, has provided an update on the repairs to the four broken submarine cables.However, it will only attend to the SAT-3 break and was expected to reach the fault area on 29 March.

WIOCC explained that the C.S. Sovereign will work on MainOne, WACS, and ACE. It is expected to arrive by 8 April.

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