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.
The South Atlantic 3/West Africa (SAT-3/Wasc) submarine cable, which links Portugal and Spain to South Africa, with connections to several West African countries along the way, has been hit by a breakdown near Libreville, Gabon, internet service provider Axxess reported this morning.
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.
