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Subject: [HanoiLUG] [Fwd: [vnit] IT: Vietnam faces isolation following theft of
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Sujet: [vnit] IT: Vietnam faces isolation following theft of undersea
cable, Thanhnien News (2 stories)
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 13:56:10 +0700
Subject: [vnnews-l] IT: Vietnam faces isolation following theft of undersea
cable, Thanhnien News (fwd)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 23:42:38 -0700 (PDT)
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Vietnam faces isolation following
theft of undersea cable
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Vietnam faces isolation following theft of undersea cable
With an undersea communications cable severed several months ago and
part of it stolen, Vietnam faces the threat of isolation if anything
happens to another cable that now carries most of its traffic.
A 98-kilometer segment of the TVH fiber-optic cable responsible for
transmitting large volumes of data for landline systems and the
Internet was stolen off the Ca Mau coast. Bui Thien Minh, deputy
director of state-run Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group
(VNPT), one of the owners, said repairs were estimated to cost US$2.6
million.
Together with SMW3, the other undersea fiber-optic cable, the damaged
network accounted for 82 percent of all data transmitted from and to
Vietnam. The rest is transmitted by three land cables and a satellite
system.
Minh said if part of SMW3 too was stolen Vietnam would be cut off from
the outside world. The Internet would collapse first.
Even more pessimistic was Lam Quoc Cuong, deputy director of VTI, a
VNPT subsidiary responsible for operating the two sea cables, who said
there is no effort to ensure that that the remaining sea cable is not
stolen.
It could be stolen at any time, he warned.
Nguyen Xuan Tru, deputy head of the Ministry of Posts and Telematics
telecommunication department, said the situation was extremely
serious.
CAT, a Thai company that invested 45 percent of the cost of the TVH
cable, said its experts estimated it would cost $2.6 million to repair
the cable.
Asean Explorer, a Singaporean ship specializing in cable repair hired
by VNPT to survey the problem, said the repairs would take 88 days.
Minh said this could take much longer due to paperwork, especially for
permission for the vessel to operate in Vietnamese waters.
Cuong said there were only three ships capable of repairing
fiber-optic cables in the entire Indian and Pacific Oceans.
In related news, firms from 10 countries including Vietnam, the US,
India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore, are
teaming up to lay a 20,000 km, $500 million AAG cable to connect
Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, with the US.
It is expected to be finished by October 2008.
Source: Tien Phong - Translated by A.N.O.N
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Government error to blame for undersea
cable theft
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Government error to blame for undersea cable theft
The theft of 98 km of undersea fiber-optic cable, which threatens to
leave Vietnam isolated, was partly caused by authorities who permitted
the collection of unused cable, Thanh Nien has discovered.
In August last year the government of Ba Ria Vung Tau province issued
a note permitting coast guards to cooperate with civilians in
salvaging unused undersea cables laid before 1975.
Such cables are no longer in use and are lucrative as scrap.
This spawned a rush by fishermen to haul up cables along the southern
coast and many reportedly failed to distinguish between unused cables
and those in use.
Some severed the TVH cable, one of the only two operational undersea
cables connecting Vietnam with the outside world.
Last month the Ba Ria Vung Tau government withdrew the permission and
banned all kinds of cable salvage.
A reader wrote to Thanh Nien expressing his indignation at the
decision which allowed people to recover cables laid before 1975 at
predetermined coordinates.
He said the fishermen and soldiers involved were mostly ignorant of
coordinates and could not know which cables were laid before 1975 and
which after since they lay deep under the sea.
Experts estimate it will cost around US$2.6 million and take at least
three months to repair the TVH line.
If the other remaining undersea cable, SMW3, too is stolen or damaged,
Vietnam will be mostly cut off from the outside world, experts warn.
Lam Quoc Cuong, deputy director of VTI, a state firm responsible for
operating the two sea cables, said SMW3 could be stolen at any time.
Source: Thanh Nien - Translated by A.N.O.N
Story from Thanh Nien News
Published: 30 May, 2007, 21:47:21 (GMT+7)
Copyright Thanh Nien News
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