A consortium of US and Latin American telephone companies is suing Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) for $1.75m for cutting the fibre-optic cable that connects the US with the Caribbean and much of South America.
The federal lawsuit alleges that the 42,000-gt Norwegian Sea (built 1988, now Superstar Libra) severed the Americas Region Caribbean Optical-ring System-1 (Arcos-1) cable while in the process of anchoring at Cancun, Mexico.
