Telecoms cable in Baltic Sea may have been severed, says Finnish owner

Cinia working with authorities to investigate what caused outage in 745-mile line between Germany and FinlandA fibre optic communications cable linking Finland and Germany along the seabed has stopped working and may have been severed by an outside force, Finnish state-controlled cyber-security and telecoms network company Cinia has said.The 745-mile (1,200km) C-Lion1 cable running through the Baltic Sea from Finland’s capital Helsinki to the German port of Rostock malfunctioned just after 02.00 GMT, the company said. Continue reading...

Telecoms cable in Baltic Sea may have been severed, says Finnish owner

Cinia working with authorities to investigate what caused outage in 745-mile line between Germany and Finland

A fibre optic communications cable linking Finland and Germany along the seabed has stopped working and may have been severed by an outside force, Finnish state-controlled cyber-security and telecoms network company Cinia has said.

The 745-mile (1,200km) C-Lion1 cable running through the Baltic Sea from Finland’s capital Helsinki to the German port of Rostock malfunctioned just after 02.00 GMT, the company said.

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