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Both cables to the Matsu Islands are cut within six days

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The two submarine cables linking Taiwan's Matsu Islands to the main island were severed six days apart — the first on 2 February, attributed by Taiwanese authorities to a Chinese fishing vessel, the second on 8 February, attributed to a Chinese cargo ship. About 13,000 residents were left dependent on a backup microwave radio link with a capacity of roughly 2.2 Gbps against a normal demand of 8 to 9 Gbps; sending a text message could take fifteen to twenty minutes. Repairs took about fifty days, because a repair ship had to be found and scheduled for a job that was small, remote and commercially marginal.

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  2. The two submarine cables linking Taiwan's Matsu Islands to the main island were severed six days apart — the first on 2 February, attributed by Taiwanese authorities to a Chinese fishing vessel, the second on 8 February, attributed to a Chinese cargo ship. About 13,000 residents were left dependent on a backup microwave radio link with a capacity of roughly 2.2 Gbps against a normal demand of 8 to 9 Gbps; sending a text message could take fifteen to twenty minutes. Repairs took about fifty days, because a repair ship had to be found and scheduled for a job that was small, remote and commercially marginal.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Locating and repairing a cable fault
  5. Redundancy and restoration in the cable network
  6. Both cables to the Matsu Islands are cut within six days
  7. Connections
  8. Redundancy and restoration in the cable network
  9. Locating and repairing a cable fault
  10. The cable chokepoint
  11. Locating and repairing a cable fault
  12. East Asian connectivity degrades for weeks
  13. Both cables to the Matsu Islands are cut within six days
  14. Four cables fail off Côte d'Ivoire and thirteen countries lose connectivity
  15. SMW4 and IMEWE are cut near Jeddah
  16. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
  17. The cable ship
  18. Redundancy and restoration in the cable network
  19. A permanent Atlantic cable lands at Heart's Content
  20. Eleven cable ships repair the Luzon Strait cables
  21. Both cables to the Matsu Islands are cut within six days
  22. Evidence
  23. Supports the 2023 Matsu cable cuts and their consequences — about 13,000 residents on a 2.2 Gbps microwave backup against 8–9 Gbps of normal demand, and roughly 50 days to repair — and the June 2025 conviction reported as the first of its kind. V55 verification basis: journalism retrieved in summary; no court document was consulted, and the attribution of the 2023 cuts to specific Chinese vessels is the Taiwanese authorities' account as reported.
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