Slow internet across South Africa
Various internet service providers have warned that there are major outages across all South African Internet providers. According to gadget.co.za the cause is due to cable breaks on the WACS and SAT3 systems, which connect South Africa to the rest of the world.
This has resulted in some South African internet users experiencing excruciatingly slow speeds since Thursday.
“The unusual and simultaneous dual cable break has resulted in customers, that are connected to Openserve’s global capacity clients, experiencing reduced speed on international browsing. International voice calling and mobile roaming has also been impacted,” Openserve said in a statement on Thursday.
On Friday morning, internet service provider Afrihost told users that connections are being re-routed, but that it still had no estimate on when normal service would resume.
Network status update:
Openserve earlier ascertained that the SAT3/WACS break is in the Libreville, Gabon, Vicinity and the WACS cable break has been isolated to the Congo between two repeater sites. Further tests are being conducted by the upstream provider. Updates to follow. pic.twitter.com/8CC7JVRgC1— Afrihost (@Afrihost) January 17, 2020
