Damage to Submarine Cable

Internet users in Malaysia may have trouble surfing websites hosted in the United States and Taiwan for the next couple of weeks due to damage to a submarine cable system.

Internet service provider Telokem Malaysia said there would be slow connectivity after the Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) submarine cable system was damaged by unknown causes.

The last time users here experienced a major slowdown in Internet services was when the same cable was damaged by an earthquake in December 2006.

- TheStar

But this time around nobody knows what the exact cause. Sabotage? Terrorist attack? or maybe a big hungry whale bite the cable off!