A damaged submarine communication cable was also discovered between Lithuania and Sweden.
The cable was cut on Sunday morning. The systems immediately reported that we had lost contact. An investigation and clarification was carried out, and it turned out that the cable was damaged, lrt said. lt technical director of Telia Lietuva Andrius Šemeshkevičius.
According to him, because of this incident, Internet bandwidth was reduced by a third. Earlier it became known about a cable break between Finland and Germany. This happened after the Russian military intensified its efforts at underwater communications.
The cable, put into operation in 2016, runs near the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
The nearly 1,200-kilometer cable is the only direct link between Finland and Central Europe and runs alongside other important pieces of infrastructure, including gas pipelines and electrical cables.
The breakdown in unified communications between Finland and central Europe comes weeks after the United States warned it had detected tightening Russian military activity around key submarine cables. The cable was installed and operated by a Chinese company controlled by Finland.
Source: Racurs
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