The Submarine Cables Failed Again.

Same story different day, as consumers and enterprises across the Philippines discovered their connectivity crippled because cables at the bottom of the ocean decided to pack it in. The faulty undersea segments linked to Hong Kong and Singapore proved once again that our fragile modern existence is held together by string and wishful thinking. Providers tried saving face by rerouting international transit data onto backup lines, which is about the only way we can survive such aquatic misery until offshore repair ships finish patching things up.