COSTA RICA NEWS — Don’t be to surprised if your online surfing is slower than usual this coming weekend.
Starting at 10:00 PM Friday until 6:00 AM Sunday internet service, both mobile and wired, will be reduced at 50% speed due to maintenance work to be carried out in the Maya-1 submarine cable.
The Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (Sutel) said intermittent or total interruptions can be expected.
MAYA-1 is an optical submarine telephone cable, beginning service in 2000, using SDH and EDFA technologies and has a capacity of 82.5 Gbit/s.
Owned and maintained by AT&T, Telmex, Hondutel, it is 4,323 km (2,686 mi) in length and was manufactured by ASN (Alcatel Submarine Networks).
It has landing points in:
- Hollywood, Florida, USA
- Cancún, Mexico
- Half Moon Bay, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
- Puerto Cortes, Honduras
- Puerto Limon, Costa Rica
- Maria Chiquita, Panama
- Tolú, Colombia