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When a Taiwanese telecoms company detected that an international undersea cable was damaged earlier this month, it worked to divert internet traffic from the broken line to keep customers on the ...
On 17–18 November 2024, [1] two submarine telecommunication cables, the BCS East-West Interlink and C-Lion1 fibre-optic cables were disrupted in the Baltic Sea.The incidents involving both cables occurred in close proximity of each other and near-simultaneously which prompted accusations from European government officials and NATO member states of hybrid warfare and sabotage as the cause of ...
Internet cables cut in the Red Sea in ‘exceptionally rare’ incident, disrupting much of Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Chris Morris. March 4, 2024 at 10:43 AM.
It's the latest incident in which cables carrying vital internet data have been damaged.
It is believed that fishing vessels are to blame for both cable breaks. [citation needed] On 20 October 2022, the SHEFA-2 submarine cable was damaged, leaving residents in Shetland without access to the Internet and emergency services. Sources speculated this might have resulted from a fishing vessel accidentally cutting the cable. [3]
This cut was between different landing points than the 23 January cut, FLAG Telecom issued a press release later, stating the "FALCON cable is reported cut at 0559 hrs GMT on 1 February 2008. Location of cut is at 56 km from Dubai, UAE on segment between UAE and Oman". [22] This cut was caused by an abandoned anchor weighing 5-6 tonnes. [23] [24]
Many Verizon customers in Hampton Roads have been without cell service since Monday evening after an excavation crew accidentally cut fiber optic cables for cell sites in the area, according to a ...
On 25 February 2012 the TEAMS cable was accidentally cut by a dredging ship carrying some works for the Kenya Ports Authority at Mombasa Offshore. [1] The repairs took about 4 weeks, because of multiple cable cuts between North Sudan and Egypt about the same time. [2] More than half of the networks in Kenya and Uganda were affected. [3]