Hey, LoyalTubist!

[Chuck(G)]

Bill, are you wondering why your Internet access has been so spotty lately?

HANOI — Fishermen who were allowed to take unused war-era undersea copper cables have gone too far, "salvaging" fibre-optic lines providing some of Vietnam's Internet and other international communications.

A Ministry of Posts and Telematics report seen on Thursday urged authorities in central and southern regions to prevent the theft of cable, whose loss underdeveloped Vietnam can ill afford.

"The general assessment is that most fishermen, and in some cases even the local authorities, had a very simple understanding of the consequences of the theft of under-sea fibre optic cable," the report on a May 31 to June 5 investigation said.

State-run newspapers said an 11-km (7-mile) section of stolen TVH fibre-optic cable would be replaced at a cost of $5.8 million. It was part of the line that transmits data from Vietnam to Thailand and Hong Kong.

[pulseczar]

I wonder how and where will you pawn off that cable.

[LoyalTubist]

It's not bad in the house but at school we sometimes have three or four hours that we don't get anything.