A cable-repair ship scheduled to fix one of the broken undersea cables has been stuck in Cape Town harbour over the weekend due to excessive winds.
“Telkom, who seem to be the main spokesperson for this, has said they can’t give an actual estimated time, but it could take six days to reach the location once the ship sets sail and then another week to repair it,” tech analyst Arthur Goldstuck told radio 702 on Monday evening.
“So we are looking at least two weeks, minimum, from today before it’s likely to be repaired.”
Goldstuck said some of the larger internet service providers had purchased additional international bandwidth, restoring their customers' connectivity by Monday.
However, users with smaller internet service providers affected by the breaks were still likely to “feel the bite” as they may not necessarily have the resources to provide additional capacity.