On the evening of Oct. 14, the managing director of Shefa, a Faroese Telecom subsidiary, received a call from one of his technicians: There was a fault on the cable connecting Shetland, an archipelago 100 miles off the coast of Scotland, to the Faroes. Days later, just after midnight on Oct. 20, Pall Hojgaard Vesturbu got a second call: Another cable between Shetland and the UK mainland was damaged.
Together, the faults severely disrupted telephone and internet communication on the islands and stopped shops from taking credit card payments for a day.
A remote-controlled vehicle used for underwater repairs.
Photographer: Alex Atack for Bloomberg Businessweek
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