R20-billion Internet cable to be built under the Arctic

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A plan to build the first fibre-optic cable across the Arctic has secured its first investment.

the first fibre-optic cable across the Arctic has secured its first investment, the consortium behind the €1.1-billion scheme said on Friday.

The subsea cable will connect Europe and Japan via North America as part of the global Internet infrastructure “We may have seen other signs of growing nationalism in Russia and that’s what we experienced in the project too,” Cinia CEO Ari-Jussi Knaapila said.

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