Undersea Cable Thieves Slow Vietnam’s Internet Access

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Vietnamese Internet users are experiencing slower service after thieves stole part of the one of the country’s main fiber-optic transmission cables from the sea floor and sold it for scrap. If one more cable is cut, experts say, Vietnam could lose almost all of its telecommunications capacity. Matt Steinglass reports from Hanoi.

Traders monitor share prices at Securities Trading Center in Ho Chin Minh city, 20 December 2006
Traders monitor share prices at Securities Trading Center in Ho Chin Minh city, 20 December 2006
According to Vietnamese press reports, the country’s military signed a contract last August with several companies to salvage undersea copper cable left over by the former government of South Vietnam, which fell to North Vietnamese communist forces in 1975.

The contractors, or someone else, apparently went on to “salvage” at lot more than that.

Lam Quoc Cuong, deputy director of the Vietnamese telecom company VTI, says a stretch measuring at least 11 kilometers of the operational fiber-optic cable serving present-day Vietnam is missing.

Cuong says the line was initially cut in March, and Vietnamese police are continuing to catch people selling illegally salvaged cable.

Last week, police in the southern coastal town of Vung Tau said they had captured four boats carrying a total of 100 tons of salvaged fiber-optic cable. The boats allegedly belonged to one man, a Vung Tau resident.

But VTI said the fiber-optic cable seized in Vung Tau does not match VTI’s own cable, and must have come from some other line.

Police have not determined who initially cut the operational cable, or how they discovered its location. VTI’s Cuong says finding the cable would have been difficult for the thieves.

He says the cable runs through different locations and at different depths. He says thieves might have found the cable by accident, while raising an anchor.

VTI says fixing the cable will cost $2.6 million, and take almost three months. Experts say if VTI’s second undersea cable were cut, Vietnam could lose 82 percent of its telecommunications capacity.

I’ve received a lot of very angry emails, because may be you don’t like me being so frank! Well you got to do with it, it’s not my fault all that’s happening here lol, and those are just examples of what’s going on outside or inside my home, so imagine the rest of vietnam.

All i know is that Vietnam took me a lot of friends. Some people suicided in that country or had accidents unsolved, i know i got many things stolen in this country as well, and nobody cares about me, they just care of my money, those are facts if you don’t like it then shove it up your ass!!! In response to that very rude message entitled “Fuck you french guy!”

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You want to order a KFC and you are living in vietnam?

Still want to order? LOL!

It’s incredible what i can get as entertaining stuffs from my home, there’s always people doing weird things all the time, right there in front of me there’s guy trying to cement a building for like a week or so and they are still at the top of the building, they are like 5 of them watching the only guy working LOL.

JACKASS IN VIETNAM!
Those are pretty common things when you live here. So what they are trying to do for like 2 days now, they’re trying to put that hype on the building, and there’s wind and it’s not easy, but look how they do it lol, it’s so lol seriously.

Full view of the spectacle

May be he can fly who knows!

Great Details on one of the jackass, what makes me so angry, is those people they don’t even get money out of the dangerous stuffs they are doing, they can die they have no compensations.

There’s actually 2 of them lol

Best one, they don’t even have shoes, what the f***?

Still want to order? LOL!

Make a search for “why viet say du ma” and google will correct you “why viet tay du ma” which completely doesn’t mean the same thing! Tay means foreigner so i let you figure out what it really means. Learn also about the curse in Vietnam.

It’s like that cause google notices more Tay Du Ma than Say Du Ma word repetitions on all the web pages of the vietnamese internet… So the vietnamese are angry on internet?

That’s how vietnamese avoids that their roof flies away during stormy weather! It is the same in Philippines and in China, that’s what a guy told me. So! How’d you think of that handcrafted work?

You’ll often hear vietnamese insulting you but you will not understand it ( you don’t speak vietnamese i bet? ). There are words that you ought to know actually…

Du Ma or Du Ma May - Means Fuck Your Mother
Con Cat - Means You’re Dick
Po Tay - ? Something about the foreigners
Tay - Foreigner
Bop - Touch
Bop Cu - Touch Penis
Bop Vu (pronounces like Yew) - Touch the boobies
Bop Chim - Touch the pussy
Khong, Dieng - Crazy (Khong means also No, but the vietnamese language is a bit special we’ll come to that later)

Those are the one that i use often… it pisses them off so badly, they are really kids… they can’t contain themselves. It’s easy for them to say it but when it comes to hear it they really act like children… So i don’t advise you to use those words with them even though you’re tempted to… We’re not like them at all so no need to be aggressive when we’re with them… It’s the web i can say whatever i want cause i’ve lived in Vietnam for 4 years!

I will list the 10 very first things that you notice when you come to Vietnam for the first time. May be the old expats will remember how it was when they settled in Vietnam the first year… It’s hard to reckon the time when we arrived here, usually foreigners that are in Vietnam forgets that period very fast… They don’t want to remember it… Or just the good sides of it… well…

1. The Motorbikes!

2. The Huge Amount of People in the Streets!

3. The Smiles! Whether you like it or not, they always smile to you… It can be boring… It’s no real smile anyway so no need to bother.

4. The Electricity Wires!

5. The Houses are all the same, 3 meters large / 9 meters high.

6. The people behave all the same, just like they got raped when they were 6 years old and now they are afraid of doing things out of the box.

7. The sound of the horns that never stops

8. Who work here? It will appear to you that nobody work! They all stay on the sidewalk enjoying their coffee or Tra Da (Vietnamese Ice Tea)

9. The Pollution, if you don’t wear glasses when you drive your motorbike (or a guy drive for you, we call it Xe Um) you will receive pollution balls that will hurt and irritate your eyes.

10. Even there is all that madness… There is that ‘Calm’ that exist nowhere else. In Vietnam people tends to make you angry cause that is their sport… But when you know how to play that sport then it becomes very calm and peaceful… Obviously to play that sport you have to become evil and ignore people… But you don’t have to do it all the time!