The operator‘s site offers no public status information, but downstream SEA-ME-WE 3 users like Australian internet service provider iiNet are advising customers that “Our network partner have advised that the repair ship has arrived at the fibre break point” and warning of “ slower than expected speeds, latency and packet loss to international destinations in Asia. This may result in webpages taking longer to load, as well as impact to time-sensitive activities such as online gaming.”…

The cable last experienced an outage in July, resulting in an eight-week degradation of service.

If this fix takes as long, a lot of folks are doing to hope they don‘t get movie download vouchers under the tree: it may take until next Christmas for their pressies to download.