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May 12, 2015

Arctic Ocean fiber optic project starts in Alaska

  • A $700 million fiber-optic cable will link Europe and Asia through the Arctic Ocean.

    • ANCHORAGE (AP) — Marine surveying will start again this summer near Alaska's coastal communities in a wide-reaching effort to improve communications by laying a $700 million fiber-optic cable linking Europe and Asia through the Arctic Ocean.

    The Alaska Dispatch News reports (http://bit.ly/1KXpSCY) lingering sea ice in Canada's Northwest Passage has caused project delays for cable-laying ships that don't have the ability to adjust course like transport ships do.


     
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