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Finland, Sweden complete repairs on Baltic Sea cables


The telecom link between Finland and Germany was fixed more quickly than anticipated.

Repair work on a broken telecommunications cable linking Finland and Germany in the Baltic Sea is complete and is functioning again, according to Cinia, a Finnish state majority-owned company. "Repairs were started quickly and the fault was fixed a bit faster than anticipated, Ari-Jussi Knaapila, Cinia's CEO, said in a press release on Friday. The announcement came after Sweden made an official request for cooperation, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Thursday, according to the Scandinavian country's news agency TT.

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