NAME SECTION

HARVIE F. MEDINA 11-HUMSS (B)

DATE TEACHER

Mr. Roy Gonzalez

REACTION PAPER
Title: Classes suspended due to internet
maintenance

Introduction
MANILA, Philippines — Several academic institutions have suspended online classes until next week despite
assurance from service providers that the emergency maintenance of submarine cables in Hong Kong will not
affect internet connectivity in the country.

Earlier, PLDT/Smart, Globe, SKY Cable and Converge issued separate statements assuring customers that their
services will not be affected by the emergency maintenance work of the AAG cables.

“We have identified alternative cable systems to keep our connectivity all throughout. We have also adopted
measures such as traffic rerouting and local caching, ensuring that most frequently downloaded content are
located in the Philippines,” said PLDT and its wireless subsidiary Smart.“Students can still do their online
studies and exams, and users in homes and businesses can go about their normal internet-based activities
during this time,” it added.Globe, for its part, said the activity has no impact on their customers, assuring them
that their “network experience will remain unaffected.”Converge said its services will not be affected as they
have sufficient international capacity on multiple submarine cable system links to Singapore, Hong Kong,
Taiwan and the United States.

Reaction:
for me it is also good to have classes suspended due to internet maintenance how can we students get online
class if there is no internet connection we should really speed up the internet connection here in the
Philippines because nowadays there is a pandemic and we students cannot go to school so we hope in the
online class that we still learn something but because of the slow internet connection we have a hard time

understanding what we are being taught and our teachers also have a hard time because of the slow internet
connection so hopefully they can fix the internet connection problem and speed up for our students and
everyone as well and hopefully speed up the internet connection here in the Philippines.