Northwest Alaska hit with internet and cellphone outages, 'caused by offshore fiber optic cut'

An article in the Anchorage Daily News, reports that several areas in northwest Alaska are without cell and internet service after a fiber optic network below the sea was mysteriously “cut.”

The outage is not as concerning as the cause of the outage. Someone, or some entity, would appear to be responsible for a “cut to the subsea fiber optic network,” wh…