SEACOM is pleased to confirm that the physical repairs to the fault on the submarine cable are in the final stages of completion with the entire system currently undergoing testing before the cable is lowered back into the water. Our technical teams are actively working with all customers to reinstate their SEACOM traffic to pre-outage configurations and all connectivity going out of Africa is expected to be fully restored on 23 July 2010.

OPERATIONAL UPDATE – 9 JULY 2010

SEACOM has continued to work closely with its partners to deploy the best plan possible for the repair operations. As communicated earlier, the exogenous factors such as location, water depth, weather and spare parts needed make this cable outage very difficult to repair and a highly specialised vessel and technical crew is being used to carry out this work.

Based on this, the current timeline indicates that the repairs may now only be finalised by 22 July 2010.