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Norway fiber optic cable outage
An undersea fiber-optic cable between mainland Norway and the archipelago of Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean has been lost in a mysterious event. The outage of the submarine telecommunications cable - the northernmost submarine telecommunications cable in the world - follows an accident last year. The. THIS IS THE PROBLEM: The police images show that the Svalbard fiber probably sustained crushing damage, says experts NRK has spoken to. A gap in the steel armoring exposed the cable itself. Norwegian authorities have seized a Norwegian-flagged ship with an all-Russian crew on suspicion of involvement in damage to an underwater fiber optic cable in the Baltic Sea. The Submarine Cable Map is a free and regularly updated resource from TeleGeography.