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1 of 2 undersea cables serving Svalbard has suffered a disruption

The archipelago still has communication, but no redundancy.

By Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer January 10, 2022
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One of the two subsea fiber optic cables serving Svalbard, the Norwegian Arctic archipelago, suffered a disruption last week. Space Norway, which operates the cables — the world’s northernmost — has located the disruption at somewhere between 130 to 230 kilometers from Longyearbyen in the area where the seabed goes from 300 meters down to 2700 meters in the Greenland Sea.

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