Broken undersea telecom cable: Greenland seeks Canadian culprit

摘要

Greenland's largest telecom company has filed a lawsuit in a federal court in Halifax, trying to force Fisheries and Oceans Canada to reveal which fishing trawler damaged its subsea cables. The cables crisscross the ocean floor so people can make overseas phone calls or surf the web on the other side of the world. The cables are carefully mapped so vessels can avoid them, but one of Tele Greenland's cables broke, not once but twice, off the coast of Newfoundland last year. The company is confident a fishing trawler's gear caused the accidents, knocking out service to its international customers. The underwater cables provide Internet and phone service from Denmark to Greenland and Newfoundland and Labrador.