On Saturday, September 6, 2025, multiple submarine fiber-optic cables were severed near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, leading to significant disruptions in cross-regional internet traffic. The fibre broadband outage affected more than 5,000 households in Ang Mo Kio, Bishan, Sengkang and Punggol for 20 hours on April 18. SINGAPORE – Asia Piling, a company involved in many public and commercial projects here, is the sub-contractor that hit critical underground fibre-optic cables. A ship transits the Suez Canal towards the Red Sea on November 3, 2024 in Suez, Egypt. Undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea disrupted internet access in parts of Asia and the Middle East, experts said Sunday, though it wasn't immediately clear what caused the incident.