Vietnam’s Internet speed has been fully restored after the Asia America Gateway (AAG) submarine cable, which broke down on April 2, was successfully repaired this week, a local Internet service provider has confirmed.

The repair was completed in five days from April 17 to 21, restoring bandwidth for all Internet connections through the AAG cable previously disrupted by a problem on the Vietnam-Hong Kong section.

The AAG suffered an issue caused by a power outage at 8:30 pm April 2 on branch S1, which connects Vietnam and Hong Kong.

The full restoration of Internet speed is particularly welcomed by Vietnamese users as novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) social distancing has led to an upsurge in demand for bandwidth-dependent services.

The most notable example is the exploding popularity of video conferencing and remote learning tools.

According to the Vietnam Internet Network Information Center, the average fixed-broadband download speed reached 61.39 Mbps, as measured from 30,000 domestic users, in Q1-2020.

For mobile networks, the average download speed was 39.44 Mbps, according to the report published on April 20.

Compared to foreign reports on the same query, this result was 45 percent higher for fixed broadband and 18.7 percent higher for mobile.

The AAG is a 20,000-kilometer submarine communications cable system connecting Southeast Asia with the U.S. mainland across the Pacific Ocean via Guam and Hawaii.

It was put into operation in November 2009.

The segment connecting to Vietnam is 314 kilometers long and strikes land in Vung Tau City in the southern region, delivering up to two terabits per second.

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