Finland’s transport company says that fibre-optic cables connecting Finland and Sweden seem to have been minimize unintentionally.
“Both cables seem to have been minimize throughout development work,” Traficom mentioned, including that the cables had been repaired.
The Swedish authorities earlier mentioned it suspected an act of “sabotage” on the cable, which hyperlinks the 2 international locations, however Finnish police mentioned they didn’t have cause to suspect legal exercise.
Nordic telecoms group GlobalConnect instructed the BBC no less than one of many breaks had been brought on by excavation work.
GlobalConnect in Sweden mentioned round 6,000 households in Finland had been affected on Monday. The fault didn’t have an effect on customers in Sweden.
Swedish authorities had mentioned sabotage of the cables was suspected.
While this seems to have been incorrect, the interval since Russia’s full-fledged invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has seen heightened rigidity within the Baltic Sea and a variety of incidents involving harm to undersea infrastructure.
