Cable disruption sees internet, overseas calls outages

Guyana suffered complete outages in its international telecoms traffic and internet services yesterday for around five hours after offshore damage to the Suriname Guyana Submarine Cable System (SGSCS).

Telecoms provider, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) resumed service partially around midday and said that local and international technical teams were continuing to work to ensure full restoration to the network.

Simultaneous with the failure of the SGSCS, Suriname reported that the backup Americas 11 cable was also experiencing failures