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On Norway’s internet frontier, the future is here — again

Svalbard is among the first places in Norway with a functioning 5G mobile network.

By Kevin McGwin November 8, 2019
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Back in 2014, when the Norwegian telecom company Telenor finished laying fiber-optic cable in Svalbard, it temporarily placed the territory at the frontier of internet technology.

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