From switchoff, August 7, 2025 (excerpt)
No television, no telephone, no internet. Since Thursday morning, August 7, thousands of Vodafone customers in the city of Potsdam [in the suburbs of Berlin] have been without these services. The reason: arson!
At around 8 a.m., the police received an emergency call: a fire was raging near the Nuthebrücke bridge on Friedrich-Engels Street in Potsdam. Flames were shooting out of a cable shaft. Since then, four Vodafone relay antennas have been out of service. 6,422 of the company’s cable customers can no longer access the internet at home, make phone calls, or watch television.
The police suspect arson on the nearby railway line. Two years ago, a fire broke out near the bridge. After the firefighters, investigators from the Landeskriminalamt (LKA, regional criminal police office) arrived on the scene and examined the area for clues and questioned local residents and passers-by.
Until the evening, Vodafone was unable to begin repairing the outage due to the presence of investigators at the scene. The date on which its customers in Potsdam will be reconnected to the network is not yet known. However, the presumed target of the attack, rail traffic, is not affected.
“Critical infrastructure” is increasingly becoming the target of attacks. Last Friday, cables caught fire on a railway line in Saxony-Anhalt. Previously, fires near the Duisburg-Düsseldorf railway line (North Rhine-Westphalia) had paralyzed this important rail link for several days.
via: sansnom Translated by Act for freedom now!