Shetland Cut Off From the World After a Break in an Undersea Cable, Officials Say

The company did not specify what caused the break or when exactly it learned of it. A spokeswoman said that the company was looking at “all options” to restore service.

A statement from the office of Alistair Carmichael, a member of parliament for Orkney and Shetland, said repairs could take two days or longer.

Another cable to Shetland, from the Faroe Islands, was still awaiting repairs after it was damaged last week, the BBC reported.

About 23,000 people live in Shetland, according to Scottish government statistics.

The police in Scotland said in a statement on Thursday that the outage was affecting some land and mobile lines on Shetland, including the internet.

“We are advising people not to make non-urgent calls for the time being so that all available lines can be used for emergencies if required,” Superintendent David Ross said in the statement, advising residents to travel to the nearest police station to report an emergency if emergency lines are not connecting.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/world/europe/shetland-scotland-outage.html