Plans for New Fiber Cable to Svalbard and Jan Mayen Space Norway is building a new subsea fiber cable to Svalbard. At the same time, the Armed Forces wants to build fiber cable to Jan Mayen. The price tag is between NOK 1 and 2 billion.
Still Breach on Svalbard Fiber Cable: “We Will Not Speculate about Cause” It has been more than a week since there came a breach on one out of two subsea fiberoptic cables supplying internet to Svalbard. “We will not know more until later this week”, Dag H. Stølan of Space Norway says.
New Cooperation about Arctic Subsea Fiber Cable After the previous collaboration stranded, resources are now put into a new project that is to lay a subsea fiber cable between North America, Asia, Northern Norway and Finland, this time through the Northwest Passage.
Plans to Connect Continents through Subsea Fiber Cable in the Polar Ocean The Arctic Connect project will stretch across 11,000 kilometers in the Arctic through a subsea fiber cable aiming to connect the Nordics with Asia using high-speed internet. If all goes according to lan, the construction of the ambitious project will commence as early as next year.