Shetland's damaged subsea cable now repaired, says operator

The damaged subsea cablegram to Shetland which near the islands without net and telephone services has been successfully repaired.

Broadband and mobile connections were aboriginal reinstated done a impermanent fix, BT said.

Now the cablegram relation Farosese Telecom has confirmed the nexus betwixt Shetland and the Faroe Islands is afloat fixed.

Work continues connected a abstracted "back-up" cablegram linking Shetland with the Scottish mainland, via Orkney, which was besides chopped connected Thursday.

Faeroese Telecom antecedently said the harm to the cables was apt caused by sportfishing vessels.

A spokesperson for BT Group, which provides communications services done the cables, said: "Following the restoration of each broadband and mobile services to Shetland connected Thursday afternoon, Faroese Telecom has confirmed that their subsea cablegram connecting Shetland with the Faroe Islands has been successfully repaired.

"All services person remained unchangeable since Thursday day erstwhile engineers applied a impermanent solution to reconnect Shetland to our network."