Two data cables running across the land border between Sweden and Finland have been repaired, a day after they were damaged affecting 6,000 private customers and 100 businesses, a company providing digital infrastructure and data communication in Northern Europe said Tuesday.

Another fiber-optic internet cable has broken between Finland and Sweden. The causes of the damage are unknown.This is reported by the Finnish publication

Finland's transport agency says that fibre-optic cables connecting Finland and Sweden appear to have been cut accidentally. "Both cables appear to have been cut during construction work," Traficom said,