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MULTIPLE SUBSEA CABLE BREAKS KNOCK SAS INTERNET
In a statement on X, formerly Twitter, Vodacom says: “Certain customers are currently experiencing intermittent connectivity issues due to multiple undersea cable failures affecting SA’s network providers, including us. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.”
The outage has also affected services such as Microsoft Azure and Office 365.
Says Microsoft on Azure status: “Starting at 10:30 UTC on 14 March 2024, customers using Azure Services in South Africa North and South Africa West may experience increased network latency or packet drops when accessing their resources.”
In a new update, Microsoft says: “We have determined that multiple fibre
cables on the West Coast of Africa — WACS, MainOne, SAT3, ACE — have been impacted which reduced total capacity supporting our regions in South Africa
