Vietnam loses half of Net connections

My friend in Hanoi tells me in a recent e-mail of a major reduction in access to the Internet for the citizens of Vietnam:

“My worst news about the Internet is that Vietnam has just lose half of its Internet connections because of some uneducated fishermen in Ca Mau (the south-east point of Vietnam). They dived down the sea water and cut off about 98km of optical Internet cable in order to sell it for money. It’ll take us 4 million USD and nearly 4 months from now to repair the line. From this morning, it’s very difficult for us to load international web pages. The Internet turns very slow and idle. That’s really a disaster to me. Hope that things will be OK soon and those fishermen should be punished for their actions. “