Overview
- Deutsche Glasfaser said the multi-day disruption was resolved on Friday afternoon, restoring internet access to roughly 20,000 customers.
- The damage occurred on Tuesday when excavation work severely cut a primary fiber backbone near Braunschweig in Lower Saxony.
- Affected areas included regions around Braunschweig, Wolfsburg, and Salzgitter, as well as Leipzig, North and Central Saxony, Potsdam, and the Börde and Jerichower Land districts.
- Repair crews reported difficult conditions due to the line’s proximity to a gas pipeline and adverse weather.
- Local administrations also reported service issues during the outage, which spanned parts of Niedersachsen, Sachsen, Brandenburg, and Sachsen-Anhalt.