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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 ...
In 2022, a Norwegian underwater data cable was damaged, and there were indications of human involvement in that incident. In 2021, a 2.5-mile-long section of another data cable disappeared from ...
The damage to the C-Lion-1 cable came one day after Telia Lietuva -- a Swedish telecoms company in Lithuania -- said one of its undersea telecommunications cables linking Lithuania and Sweden ...
Two undersea cables carrying internet data deep in the Baltic Sea were damaged, European telecommunications companies said this week, drawing warnings from European governments of possible Russian ...
On 17 October 2023, the damage was made public when the Swedish government reported the incident. Just a few hours later, [3] the Balticconnector gas pipeline between Estonia and Finland was ruptured. Another submarine communications cable between Finland and Estonia was damaged at approximately the same time.
The cable was damaged in November 2024, taking the cable offline between November 18 and November 28. [2] Some officials suspect the damaging was an act of sabotage. [3] The cable is 1,173 kilometres (729 mi) long and has eight fiber pairs with a design capacity of 120 Tbit/s and a maximum capacity of 144 Tbit/s. [4] [5] [6]
WASHINGTON − Germany said damage to two underwater telecommunications cables linking Germany to Finland and Sweden to Lithuania is "sabotage," in an incident reminiscent of the 2022 bombing of ...
The U.N. technology agency has created a new body to boost protection for submarine cables, aiming to help shore them up against damage and accelerate repairs after a series of high-profile failures.