Asia Piling Co damaged fibre cables, causing a 20-hour outage affecting over 5,000 households. Incident occurred during North-South Corridor construction involving bored piling works. Experts call for stricter enforcement, improved detection, and updated infrastructure mapping. SINGAPORE – Asia Piling, a company involved in many public and commercial projects here, is the sub-contractor that hit critical underground fibre-optic cables. SINGAPORE: Asia Piling Co was the sub-contractor that damaged fibre optic cables and caused a broadband service outage over the weekend, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said on Wednesday (Apr 22). Around 5,000 users in parts of Ang Mo Kio, Bishan, Sengkang and Punggol were affected by the Apr 18. The bus arrival timing disruption was fully restored on April 19 only after the damaged cable was repaired. SINGAPORE – The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is investigating why a backup fibre-optic cable meant to transmit bus location data failed to function as intended after construction works. Some 5,000 fibre broadband customers were affected on Saturday (April 18). Fibre broadband services to about 5,000 users in Ang Mo Kio, Bishan, Sengkang and Toa Payoh that were disrupted due to an alleged cable cut during third-party construction work on Saturday (April 18) have been fully restored. The resulting fibre broadband outage hit more than 5,000 households from Ang Mo Kio, Bishan, Sengkang and Punggol for 20 hours on April 18.