A new case of damaged telecommunication networks: This was announced by Sweden, which belongs to the company Global Connect, and Finland, which talked about the double break of a terrestrial cable. The Finnish transport and Swedish civil defense ministers said an act of “sabotage” was suspected. “The authorities are investigating the matter in cooperation with the telecommunications company GlobalConnect,” Finnish minister Lulu Ranne told X. he said.
What we know: suspects
Swedish minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin said, “Under the circumstances, sabotage is suspected,” but GlobalConnect CEO Martin Lippert seemed rather cautious about such a hypothesis: “We have no indication of that at the moment.” Our first indication is that one of the cables was cut by the excavator during construction, “I don’t have any information about the other one yet,” he said.
We know that the cable breaks occurred on land and were detected on the afternoon of Monday, December 2. The company’s communications manager, Niklas Ekström, said the damage occurred in the Finnish cities of Espoo and Vihti outside Helsinki. No submarine connections were affected. One of the two cables has been repaired, the other is still damaged. The company says they currently only have effects on Finnish users.
precedents
Just last November 17, the fiber optic cable used for communications in the Baltic Sea was damaged. While a Chinese ship is at the center of Finland and Sweden’s suspicions, some European countries, including Germany, are talking about possible sabotage by Russia in connection with the war in Ukraine. The accusations were dismissed as “nonsense” by Moscow, and Beijing also denied any involvement.
Source: Today IT
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