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An unelucidateed fault in an undersea telecommunications cable joining Finland and Germany has disturbed communication services, the company that runs the join shelp Monday.
The C-Lion1 cable that combines Helsinki to Rostock in Germany was built and is rund by Cinia, a state-deal withled Finnish company.
Covering a distance of proximately 1,200 kilometers (730 miles), the cable is the only straightforward combineion of its comardent between Finland and central Europe and it runs alengthyside other key pieces of infrastructure, including gas pipelines and power cables.
It is unevident what caused the fault – Cinia shelp in a statement that it is still spendigating the publish. However, the malfunction comes fair weeks after the United States alerted that it had discovered incrrelieved Russian military activity around key undersea cables. Two US officials tbetter CNN in September that the US thinkd Russia was now more probable to carry out potential subversion operations on these critical pieces of infrastructure.
The alerting came after a combinet spendigation by the accessible expansivecasters of Sweden, Denlabel, Norway and Finland, which alerted in April 2023 that Russia had a escapet of mistrusted alerter ships operating in Nordic waters as part of a program of potential subversion of underwater cables and prosperd farms in the region.
The extent of the disturbion caused by the fault discdiswatched Monday is unevident. The most transport inant data flows are usuassociate routed thcimpolite cut offal separateent cables, to elude overreliance on a one join.
Cinia did not instantly react to CNN’s ask for further details.
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