• BBC: Cable damage disrupts internet services in Orkney and Shetland

    From JMB99@mb@nospam.net to uk.telecom.broadband on Sun Jul 27 08:12:56 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.telecom.broadband

    Cable damage disrupts internet services in Orkney and Shetland

    26 July 2025

    Thousands of people in Orkney and Shetland have experienced disruption
    to their internet and phone services because of damage to a subsea cable.

    Shetland Telecom said the Shefa-2 cable between Orkney and Banff
    sustained damage at about 03:00.



    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j9p4d7njxo


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  • From JMB99@mb@nospam.net to uk.telecom.broadband on Sun Jul 27 08:15:35 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.telecom.broadband

    On 27/07/2025 08:12, JMB99 wrote:
    Cable damage disrupts internet services in Orkney and Shetland

    -a-a-a 26 July 2025

    Thousands of people in Orkney and Shetland have experienced disruption
    to their internet and phone services because of damage to a subsea cable.

    Shetland Telecom said the Shefa-2 cable between Orkney and Banff
    sustained damage at about 03:00.



    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j9p4d7njxo







    SIBC
    @SIBC_Shetland
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    7h
    Faroe Telecom has been looking for an available cable-ship to examine,
    and to repair, the Shefa 2 subsea fibre-optic telecommunications cable
    from Manse Bay in Orkney to Banff on the Scottish mainland.




    https://x.com/SIBC_Shetland/status/1949258893575516522


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  • From Spike@aero.spike@mail.com to uk.telecom.broadband on Sun Jul 27 09:03:40 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.telecom.broadband

    JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> wrote:

    Cable damage disrupts internet services in Orkney and Shetland

    26 July 2025

    Thousands of people in Orkney and Shetland have experienced disruption
    to their internet and phone services because of damage to a subsea cable.

    Shetland Telecom said the Shefa-2 cable between Orkney and Banff
    sustained damage at about 03:00.

    <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j9p4d7njxo>

    Any Russian-connected ships in the vicinity at the time?

    It could have been a trial run for wider operations against UK sea-bed
    internet and power cables.

    They know where they arerCathey just need to check out if there are any UK-specific conditions that might need to be taken into consideration.
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    Spike

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