Remember the incident that happened in December of 2006 where an undersea cable was cut because of the earthquake in the the coast of Taiwan?  Today Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) undersea cable network between China and Taiwan suffered a serious cable fault in segment 2.

At about 10:50 a.m. on Wednesday, local time, an alarm signaled a cable fault on Segment 7 of APCN2, which connects Hong Kong and Shantou, China. The disruption caused a temporary loss of service on the undersea link but all customers that use the cable were soon shifted to capacity on other cables, according to a source familiar with the situation.

The exact cause of the APCN2 fault was not immediately known. The alarm indicated the disruption was caused by a “single point of failure,” which suggests a variety of possibilities, including a technical failure or a cable cut, the source said.

Exact same thing happened in 2006 wherein all ISPs here in the Philippines slowed down to a crawl.  Right now PLDT, Globe Telecom and Digitel are very slow to almost no connection at all.  I have to refresh my browser several times for google.com to load.  I hope they’ll fix the cable as soon as possible and not take months like what happened in 2006.

On a side note, East Asia Crossing (EAC) cable is also under repair which is expected to be done by August 20.