Thousands of residents on Britain’s Shetland Islands are without phone and internet services after two undersea telecommunications cables were damaged just days apart, a situation that has been described as “very rare.”
Residents on the remote Scottish archipelago have not been able to access telecommunication services since the early hours of Oct. 20 due to the break in the cable connecting the islands to mainland Scotland, some 130 miles to the south.
Another cable, which connected Shetland to the Faroe Islands, which is part of Denmark, was damaged last week and is still being repaired.
The cause of the damage has not yet been confirmed….