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Norwegian Company Pitches 2,800-Mile Undersea Cable Linking Canada and Europe to Bypass the US (www.gadgetreview.com)

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Bulk Infrastructure proposes a 6,500-kilometer Norway-to-Montreal cable bypassing U.S. territory entirely.
Costs exceed $620 million, with financing, customers, and route surveys still unresolved.
Routing around U.S. territory does not guarantee independence from American networks downstream.

Norwegian infrastructure company Bulk Infrastructure is proposing a direct fiber cable from Norway to Canada, routed around the United States entirely. The project, named Leif Erikson, remains a proposal, not a construction announcement.

Canada currently has relatively few direct international cable options that avoid U.S. routing, a structural gap the project is designed to address. That context, combined with growing government interest in infrastructure resilience, gives the proposal its strategic weight.

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[-] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

I think they should do it. Having an option that isn't dependent on America's ill will, is important if civilized nations are to have agency.

They also should make their own Starlink-ish constellation.

Europe and friends had benefited from a relative golden age of peace, using the peace dividend to invest in their civilian sectors. While it would be painful to invest in defense, the time has come to do so. It sucks, but the Dogey Confederates will abuse decent people if given an opening.

[-] jdeveth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Europe does have their own Starlink, Eutelsat OneWeb.

I am not sure how they compare, but it's big enough to have global coverage according to Wikipedia.

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