Communications throughout Angola may already improve in the coming days with the restoration of the three main submarine cables (WACS, SAT3 and ACE), which connect the west coast of Africa to Europe, which had suffered a structural cut at the beginning of August.
According to data released to the press by the CEO of Openserve, Althon Beukes, a company that operates as a subsidiary of the South African state telecommunications provider “Telkon SA SOC Limited”, the cables will already be operational, where his company has collaborated with partners of the consortium to facilitate the restoration of the cables.
the rupture of submarine cables was associated with strong currents in the Congo River and affected communications in countries south of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with Angola experiencing a “slight degradation in the quality of the Internet”.
The simultaneous cut in the three main submarine cables (WACS, SAT3 and ACE), which connect the west coast of Africa to Europe, will have occurred more than 150 kilometers from the Congo River estuary, affecting mainly international communications with Europe, says a announcement from Angola Cables.
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According to the Angolan company, the consortia that manage the respective submarine systems were working on repairing the cuts, where communications are restored to their normal functioning from the 06th of September.
to inform you that we recent days making calls, checking messages or taking a peek at social networks has become a difficult task for Angolans. This is because the population found constant failures with the mobile phone and internet signal, offered by the various operators, as a result of the simultaneous cut in the three main submarine cables (WACS, SAT3 and ACE).
Angola Cables advances, in the note, that these ruptures are mainly caused by natural causes, which is why submarine cable networks and international operators have redundancy plans where Internet traffic can be diverted.
"In this case, the SACS cable is an important alternative that Angola offers to carry traffic while repairs are carried out.”, says the operator.
