The impact of the breaks in WACS and SAT-3 is zero to FMT customers, as its network was designed to ensure resilience to survive a disruption of this nature.
A rock fall on Sunday in the Congo Canyon, one of the largest submarine canyons in the world, has caused breaks in WACS and the South Atlantic 3 (SAT–3) undersea cables.
Just five weeks into hurricane season, expert climatologists at Colorado State University have already upgraded their forecast from 13 named storms to 18, now citing an "above-average" Atlantic season.