Speaking with the Vietnamnet Newspaper on Wednesday morning, a representative from Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) shared that they have negotiated with partners to buy more land-based internet capacity, and that international Internet connections would be improved, especially at peak hours in the coming days.
Earlier a representative of Viettel also said that it will continue to negotiate to buy more capacity on land-based cables to ensure a minimum backup rate of 10 percent.
Representatives of MobiFone and FPT Telecom said that they have applied technical measures to ensure the capacity of international connections.
Commenting on the issue, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications, Pham Duc Long, said that the move showed great efforts by local internet service providers amid the long troubles with sea cable lines.
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 the world are experiencing issues, seriously affecting performance and reliability as about 75 percent of international internet connections from Vietnam have been lost.
Nguyen Hong Thang, Director of the Vietnam Telecommunications Authority, said that a coordination board had been established to monitor the response to the submarine cable incident.
Notably, besides applying technical measures, telecommunications firms also quickly opened more connection capacity on land cables to ensure service quality and the interests of internet users despite the higher costs, he said.
Following the direction of the Ministry of Information and Communications, telecommunications enterprises shared international traffic with each other, for example, Viettel shared 100Gbps of international internet connection capacity with VNPT.
