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On 17–18 November 2024, [1] two submarine telecommunication cables, the BCS East-West Interlink and C-Lion1 fibre-optic cables were disrupted in the Baltic Sea.The incidents involving both cables occurred in close proximity of each other and near-simultaneously which prompted accusations from European government officials and NATO member states of hybrid warfare and sabotage as the cause of ...
The only aim of blue crime is monetary profit. One form of criminal activity against submarine cables is cable theft. An example is the cable between Singapore and Indonesia, which was partly robbed in 2013: 31,7 km and 418 tons of cables were removed. [33] Another scenario is a criminal group threatening to harm cables if no ransom is received.
EASSy – (an East Africa Submarine Cable System with endpoints in South Africa and the Sudan) EC-1 – (Eastern Link Cable System) (Trinidad, Netherlands Antilles) ECFS – (Eastern Caribbean Fibre System) (Trinidad, Grenada, St Vincent, Barbados, St Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Antigua, St Kitts, St Maarten, Anguilla ...
From the 1850s until 1911, British submarine cable systems dominated the most important market, the North Atlantic Ocean. The British had both supply side and demand side advantages. In terms of supply, Britain had entrepreneurs willing to put forth enormous amounts of capital necessary to build, lay and maintain these cables.
BEIJING (Reuters) -China has provided information and documents to a joint investigation into two severed Baltic Sea undersea cables, and has invited Germany, Sweden, Finland and Denmark to ...
Undersea cables between Finland-Germany and Lithuania-Sweden were cut, potentially sabotaged. The incident is one of a number of similar incidents in recent years, highlighting the vulnerability ...
The cable is wholly owned by Lumen (formerly Level 3 Communications) in the US following its acquisition of Global Crossing. [1] The original owners, which each owned two of the fibre pairs, gave this cable system different names, so it is known as both Yellow (after the Beatles song Yellow Submarine ) and AC-2 .
Investigators are trying to crack the mystery of how two undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea were cut within hours of each other, with European officials saying they believe the disruption ...