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Telecom companies pledge to better international Internet connections

Telecommunication firms have pledged to ensure smooth Vietnam’s international Internet connections from February 10 night.
Telecom companies pledge to better international Internet connections ảnh 1Illustrative image (Photo: Viettel)
Hanoi (VNA) – Telecommunication firms have pledged to ensuresmooth Vietnam’s international Internet connections from February 10 night.

They said they will utilise different methods to open up more data flows onland at a meeting with telecom firms held by the Ministry of Information and Communicationson the same day to solve the submarine cable incident and ensure Vietnam’s internationalInternet connections.

Four submarine cables Asia-America Gateway (AAG), Asia Africa Europe 1 (AAE-1),Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) and Intra Asia (IA) that connect the country to theworld are experiencing issues, seriously affecting performance and reliability.

This is the first time the Vietnamese telecommunication firms experienced aloss of service when a number of submarine fiber optic cables got troubles. Thetrouble affected both Vietnam and Asia region.

At the meeting, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hungasked the firms to apply technical measures to ensure connections and thequality of the service./.
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