Finland: Outage reported after fiber optic cable damaged – DW – 12/03/2024
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Significant internet outages in Finland have been attributed to a damaged fiber optic cable. The Baltic Sea region has seen similar disruptions in recent months.

Summary

A fiber optic cable connecting Sweden and Finland was damaged on land, affecting 6,000 private customers and 100 businesses.

While Finnish authorities are investigating, Swedish officials suspect sabotage.

This incident follows recent undersea cable damage in the Baltic Sea, where two cables were severed in November, raising similar sabotage concerns.

The Baltic region, home to multiple NATO nations and Russia, has seen heightened tensions since the Nord Stream pipeline explosions in 2022.

Previous cases involved sightings of a China-flagged vessel, but Russia has denied involvement in any incidents.

    • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      Yesh but what for? Internet will be back up and we’ll all be arming up and monitor more?

      • guy@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        Well this one was an accident, but others are sabotage.
        As said, disruption, and also because there’s no other ways to take revenge on Sweden and Finland’s “unfriendly” behavior of joining NATO 😄 can’t really bomb Helsinki or Stockholm so hybrid operations it is

      • whithomEnglish
        3·
        15 hours ago

        Just disruption for the sake of diversion.