Marseille, Faroes, Shetland: Who is Cutting the Underwater Internet Cables?
Elena Panina/Елена Панина | After the sabotage of the Nord Streams, the perpetrators of which Sweden, Denmark and the FRG together cannot be found despite an exhaustive set of data on the movements of US, British and Polish navies in the area, it has been suggested that this is just the beginning of a "communications war". And here's the confirmation. ● On the night of 19 October, fibre optic highways were cut in at least three locations in the Marseilles area. In addition to the disruption on the Marseille-Lyon, Marseille-Milan and Marseille-Barcelona routes, international traffic towards Australia and South-East Asia was affected. The affected provider turned out to be Free 1337. It has published pictures of what has been labelled as "professionally cut cables". ● In April, four fibre optic lines of the same ISP were affected near Paris. In addition to Free and its backbone provider SFR, a dozen other providers were also affected. They are now routing traffic via alternative routes, leading to increased delays. The difference between April and October is that it's not internal French traffic that's now affected, but external traffic. ● On the same day as the damage to cables near Marseille, the Shetland Islands were left without communication. Mobile phone, internet and landlines are working intermittently there and there are problems with cashless payments in shops. ● Last week another cable connecting the Shetland and Faroe Islands was sabotaged. No one has yet been blamed for the sabotage, but according to local authorities "it is unlikely that two such problems occur at the same time". ● You don't have to be a state to stage such a sabotage. It could be rival ISPs and other private entities interested in cutting off or slowing down communications in a particular direction. For example, to deal with exchanges. (Translated with www.DeepL.com)
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