A submarine data communications cable across the Baltic Sea between Finland and Germany has broken and the cause for the disruption is being investigated, Finnish authorities said Monday.
The Finnish state-controlled data services provider, Cinia, said βa faultβ was detected Monday in the C-Lion1 cable that runs nearly 1.200 kilometers (746 miles) from the Finnish capital, Helsinki, to the German port city of Rostock.
The C-Lion1, commissioned in 2016, is Finlandβs only data communications cable that runs from the Nordic country directly to central Europe.
JUST IN – C-Lion1 submarine cable running between Finland and Germany has broken, and its communication connections are cut β Yle pic.twitter.com/DtfpabAfr0
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Authorities in Finland say a submarine data communications cable across the Baltic Sea between Finland and Germany has broken and the cause for the disruption is being investigated.
