Bell is looking for answers after its subsea fibre-optic cable connecting western Newfoundland to Nova Scotia was severed for the second time in the space of a year.
The telecommunications cable was most recently cut on Dec. 24, said David Joice, the company’s networks director. That’s almost a year after the first incident on Jan. 4, 2024.
“We found that it was cut by humans,” Joice said in an interview Wednesday. “And what was really difficult about this, because it’s a huge investment, is we found that it was deliberately cut for the second time by humans.”
The cable stretches across the Cabot Strait, between Dingwall, N.S., and Codroy, N.L. When crews retrieved the ends of the three-centimetre cable, they saw it was sliced clean, as if someone had used a specialized tool, he said….