🌐 OfReg confirms repair of Maya-1 undersea cable

The Cayman Islands' utilities regulator, OfReg, has confirmed that an outage on a section of the Maya-1 undersea cable has been resolved. The cable, which supplies the Cayman Islands with international internet connections, was repaired offshore in Mexico by the cable ship Wave Sentinel and a cable repair team. Despite issues with the cable since June, OfReg denied any problems in July following a local internet service outage. The regulator has been asked to explain the contradiction and why the outage was not made public. 🌊

During the undisclosed outage, communication was switched to the Cayman Jamaica Fibre System (CJFS). Now that the Maya-1 cable has been repaired, internet traffic re-routing has ended and the Cayman Islands are back to full capacity. OfReg met with senior executives from the Maya-1 Cable consortium member Liberty Networks, Cable and Wireless Networks, and local internet service providers to discuss the status of the cable repair and other issues. These included commercial agreements currently in force, access to normal and redundant capacity on cables in the region, and operational performance of services provided. 🖥️

OfReg Interim CEO Sonji Myles emphasized the importance of international connectivity as a crucial part of Cayman's critical national infrastructure. He stated that any loss of service over these critical areas of infrastructure could have severe consequences, and pledged to continue working with licensees, cable owners, operators, and other stakeholders to ensure that Cayman's international connectivity ecosystem is effectively maintained, resilient, and protected. 🌐