Broken trans-Pacific cable slows Internet in Vietnam, again Vietnamese internet users reported disruptions and slowdowns in international connections on Tuesday morning after an undersea cable broke for the second time this year at around midnight. The Asia American Gateway (AAG) cable accommodates most international connections for Vietnamese Internet providers like FPT Telecom, VNPT, and Viettel, according to managers of the cable. Nguyen Van Khoa, general director of FPT Telecom, said Asia American Gateway’s experts believe the rupture occurred somewhere near Hong Kong, adding they are finding it difficult to exactly locate the break due to bad weather caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi. Khoa also said the damaged cable incident won't affect Vietnamese users as seriously as in July given that internet service providers have expanded the international bandwidth of their back-up cables. Launched in 2007, the 20,000-kilometer cable spanning the ocean between Malaysia and the US--became the first such cable to do so. A 314-kilometer section of the AAG cable that has linked Hong Kong and Vung Tau since 2009 is used by the four major local Internet providers, namely FPT Telecom, VNPT, Viettel and SPT. Several cable disruptions have occurred since 2011, forcing the companies to invest in other underwater cables. By Thanh Luan, Thanh Nien News