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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]
According to the International Cable Protection Committee, it is common for fishing vessels to unintentionally break undersea cables. [7] An AT&T technician, interviewed in 1959 by the Associated Press , said the company's undersea cables were at the time being regularly cut by accident each summer by Portuguese and Norwegian fishing vessels ...
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 ...
A cut undersea internet cable is making Taiwan worried about ‘gray zone’ tactics from Beijing. Wayne Chang and Simone McCarthy, CNN. January 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM.
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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