Shefa 2 News Today

GOVERNMENT and its agencies knew from the outset that the damage to the Shefa-2 subsea cable last October was caused by a fishing vessel - but did not relay that information when asked by the media. E-mail communication released under freedom of information (FOI) legislation...

Carmichael snubbed when not invited to ‘Shetland incident’ debrief

FULL broadband services have been restored to all users in Shetland after repairs to the damaged Shefa-2 subsea cable were completed on Sunday afternoon. Broadband to users whose internet service provider had no back-up capacity on the same cable running north rather than south...

SHETLAND Fishermen’s Association (SFA) has strongly refuted as “pure speculation” any suggestion that the recent damage to the Shefa-2 telecommunication cable was caused by a fishing vessel. Shetland suffered a major blackout last Thursday when the Faroese owned subsea...

SOME internet services in the isles were again offline on Wednesday as efforts to repair the damaged Shefa-2 cable got underway earlier but had to be postponed due to weather and sea conditions. Openreach, which maintains the UK's broadband network, confirmed late this afternoon...

A repair ship is due to arrive on site in the coming days

WHEN islanders woke up on Thursday morning to find neither their mobile phone nor their internet were working, it initially looked as though the islands would be affected by a massive outage lasting two to three days. Internal connectivity was also largely lost leading to acting...

THE FIRST of the two faults in the Faroese Shefa-2 subsea cable has now been repaired. Shetland was largely cut off from the outside world for a period of time on Thursday when the already damaged cable was hit for a second time, near Orkney. Some connectivity provided by...