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authorities to permit a cable ship to repair the damage. On 29 September 2015, it was advised that a cable ship had been mobilized to the area, to isolate and resolve the fault, with a tentative fix date of mid to late
October 2015, however due to the complexity of repairing cables, this time frame was only an estimated time frame for a fix.
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was sent to the site. A permit was required from the
Indonesian Authorities to effect repairs: on 3 March 2013 it was reported that "The cable ship operator has advised that the required permit to undertake works has not been granted. A tentative repair date of 09 April 2013 has been posted but still
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On 15 September 2015 the cable was again cut at segment 3.3 causing significant disruption to services from
Australia to Singapore. Service disruptions caused particular impact for Apple customers due to the release of the iPhone 6, iOS9 and OSX just prior to the cable cut. Apple's services were
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On 11 May 2018 at 09:58 AEST, Vocus Group confirmed that SEA-ME-WE3 suffered two shunt faults approximately 28 km (in a deep trench which would require mobilisation of specially designed cable barge with deep de-trenching tool capability to perform recovery) and 231 km from the cable
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On 29 August 2017 Vocus Group confirmed a cable break on the Perth to
Singapore segment (S3.3). On 27 September 2017, Cable Ship ASEAN Explorer confirmed a "shunt fault" on the insulating material either caused by ship anchors or sea currents. On 3 October 2017, a new issue was detected. On 16
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Singapore Tuas Cable Landing Station. The ASEAN Explorer arrived at the location of the cable fault on 10 January 2017. A tentative repair window from 11–14 January 2017 was
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On 25 September 2015 at 03:07 UTC, the cable once again experienced problems at SEA-ME-WE3's S3.3 (Perth-BU) at about 1143 km from Tuas cable station (between repeater R346 and R345). This was the same location as where the previous problem occurred, which took 3 months for
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Telstra customers but the impact was noticeable for all other Australian ISP's. This disruption was expected to be repaired sometime after mid October 2015. This was the third time that the cable had been cut in this segment in just over two and a half years.
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On 26 October 2018 at 11:35 AEST, iiNet Group reported that SEA-ME-WE3 was down again. No status update has been posted by Vocus so far, however a post exists claiming that there was a possible cable fault from Perth
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cable, which is intended to provide redundancy, causing slow
Internet connections and disruption to international calls to the U.S. and Europe from the Middle East and South Asia. Over 70 percent of the network in Egypt was down. Although central to India's largest carrier,
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scheduled, subject to permit approvals. On 16 January 2017 Vocus advised that the repair works to SEA-ME-WE3 had been completed and all Ethernet and transit traffic in and out of Singapore has been restored.
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1024:"Capacity Upgrade of In-service Systems using WDM Technology"
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1085:"Communication breakdown in Pakistan"
1029:. Fujitsu. 23 April 2014. p. 12.
27:Submarine communications cable system
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2358:Mauritius–Rodrigues Submarine Cable
1765:Anton A. Huurdeman (31 July 2003).
1598:. Fairfax Media. 5 September 2018.
1374:"Whirlpool Forums - iiNET subforum"
1183:. Times of Malta. 19 December 2008.
1127:"Asia phone links start to recover"
3023:2000 establishments in Maharashtra
2515:Bezeq International Optical System
1800:"Tasman Global Access (TGA) Cable"
1572:from the original on 13 March 2018
1043:. SEA-ME-WE 3. n.d. Archived from
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1418:"Vocus Group - Incident Summary"
1396:"Vocus Group - Incident Summary"
1141:"Bloomberg Politics - Bloomberg"
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1195:"Perth-Singapore cable severed"
841:(1997) – decommissioned in 2012
499:2011 submarine cable disruption
2837:Pacific Caribbean Cable System
2105:Svalbard Undersea Cable System
2055:Pacific Caribbean Cable System
1438:Crozier, Ry (30 August 2017).
1169:. Bloomberg. 19 December 2008.
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1129:. BBC News. 28 December 2006.
508:345 and 346. The repair ship
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1627:Technology Decisions
1568:. 20 December 2017.
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833:Southern Cross Cable
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2144:Legacy or abandoned
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1728:Süddeutsche Zeitung
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372:Batangas
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