Cable Damage News Today

A Russian fiber optic cable under the Baltic Sea was damaged last month only 28 km (17 miles) from where a gas pipeline linking Finland and Estonia was ruptured a couple of hours later. The details emerged in a statement on Tuesday from Russian state company Rostelecom, which publicly acknowledged the damage to its cable for the first time. Rostelecom called it an "accident" but did not specify the cause.

The cause of the damage remains a mystery - but questions will inevitably be asked about whether the cables were targeted deliberately, given Russias war on Ukraine.

According to the digital infrastructure services provider Cloudflare, traffic on Airtel has remained low and continued to drop further through the end of June, however, traffic on BSNL showed slight signs of recovery starting in early June but remained extremely low.

Internet, Festnetz-Telefon, Kabel-TV – plötzlich war ab Dienstagnachmittag gegen 15.45 Uhr alles tot bei rund 1045 Vodafone-Kunden in Teilen von...