An undersea communication cable between Sweden and Lithuania was damaged and Swedish authorities are investigating, Lithuanian television channel LRT and Swedish television channel SVT reported.
“The cable (between Sweden and Lithuania) was damaged on Sunday night, around 10.00 (11.00 Moscow time)… The systems immediately reported that the connection was lost. “Further investigation and clarification of the situation was carried out, and it turned out that (the cable) was damaged.” — said the head of the technical department of the telecommunications company Telia in an interview with LRT Andrius Semeskevicius.
According to Šemeshkevičius, Sweden and Lithuania are connected by three Telia Internet cables. Semeskevicius added that the Internet connection of network users was restored despite the failure of one of the cables, but Internet bandwidth decreased by a third.
Finnish operator Cinia Oy said on Monday that a fault was detected in the Finnish-Germany undersea telecommunications cable C-Lion1 and that the cable was deactivated. Germany and Finland later said they were concerned about damage to an undersea communications cable linking the two countries in the Baltic Sea and that a thorough investigation was underway.
Swedish Minister of Civil Defense Karl-Oscar Bohlin commented on both incidents of cable damage, saying that the relevant Swedish authorities were investigating them. Furthermore, according to SVT, a spokesperson for the Swedish Armed Forces Henrik Nystrom He stated that the department is monitoring the situation and sharing information with affected parties and allies.
C-Lion1 is the first cable laid directly between Finland and Germany. Previous communication channels passed through Sweden and Denmark. The laying of cables began in October 2015 and ended in January 2016, RIA Novosti recalls.
