How a federal case suggests the critics of an Arctic broadband scheme may’ve been right all along
ANALYSIS: Revelations from a federal criminal charge show that the business case for an Arctic fiber optic cable was never as strong as it appeared.
May 14, 2018
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More than 200 people had told her that the gigantic Quintillion fiber optic cable linking Europe to Asia by way of the Arctic would never pencil out — which is how Elizabeth Pierce came to give a speech titled “They Said It Couldn’t Be Done.”
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