Uganda, May 13 -- Uganda and other East African countries will experience slow Internet connections due to damage to several undersea fibre-optic cables.

Sources from Airtel Uganda said about 80 million Internet users in East Africa experienced either slow or intermittent service due to the outage.

Mr David Birungi, an industry player, who spoke to Monitor last evening, said: "Ugandans should not worry now or restart routers or call centres. It's being worked on, and the capacity has increased, and the speed has started to improve. We believe that within the next hour, we shall have stability. We have already informed the UCC as well."

Mr Birungi said: "We get the Internet from an upstream provider, and like all services, sometimes the...