SEACOM downtime hits ADSL users

Downtime on the SEACOM system has once again left local ADSL consumers without international connectivity

September 13, 2012
Seacom cable cut break

Downtime on the SEACOM system has left numerous South African ADSL users without international connectivity on Thursday, 13 September.

Numerous ADSL subscribers reported slow or no international connectivity from around 14:00.

MWEB confirmed that their SEACOM bandwidth is currently down and that they are only running on WACS.

MWEB is still waiting for confirmation from SEACOM about the cause of the problem and the estimated time of when it will be fixed.

SEACOM outage on 13 September statement

SEACOM released the following statement regarding the downtime today.

SEACOM’s customers are currently experiencing a service affecting outage due to simultaneous fibre cuts on both South African backhaul providers’ networks.

SEACOM has been informed that repair crews are on site and will provide an update as soon as our circuits are up and stable.

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