Burning cable outage affects Internet services in East Africa

Many countries in East Africa, including Kenya, suffered from the slow internet connections after at least one marine cable serving the region. “The information we have so far has confirmed that one of the marine cables is 45 km north of Derban,” said Ben Roberts, head of the Liquid Intelligent Technologies. He added that “it is slowly causing internet.” Roberts continued: “The East Africa region was influenced because some of its most important content providers are served by data centers in South Africa, which is the closest knot to Kenya,” explained that the internet traffic was redirected while the engineers solved the problem. NetBlocks, a company specializing in internet analysis, announced in a post on the “X” platform that network data has shown turmoil in the Internet connection in the East African countries. “The damage has caused four marine cables to disrupt the western coast of African Internet services in the continent in March. At the time, all major marine communication cables for data transfer, including the West Africa cable, Mainone, Mainone, South Atlantic Cable 3, Ace Cable, the service breakdown and communication problems for mobile operators and Internet service Businesses such as “just Blux”, “Kentec” and “Klaud Flair”.