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Norway to Wire North Pole
TomMajor writes "Norway will lay an underwater fiber-optic cable from the mainland to Svalbard and turn remote Longyearbyen into the world's best connected village, providing residents with 100 TV stations and a full VDSL (very high bit-rate DSL) network..."
Easy when you have the (oil) money Norway has ;)
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[Jamaican accent]Come visit the beautiful sunny island of Svalbard and it's coastal villege Longyearbyen. It's always a blast, with fresh fish and internet access![/Jamaican accent]
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If their going to spend 20Million $ on it...
I fought the corporate America, and the corporate America bought the law.
There's no North Pole in this story except the title. Makes TomMajor look like quite a sucker.
Isn't the (magnetic) North Pole in Canadian arctic waters? (Bear in mind there is no land mass North Pole!).
-psy
The idea is NOT to necessarily make this the best wired remote village, it's to BACKHAUL data from the satellite station that's located there. (If you read the story this becomes blatantly obvious).
Providing connectivity for the village is just a (happy) side effect. I mean, did anyone really believe the Norweigan's were spending USD$40m to provide connectivity to 1700 people?
-psy
What does this mean other than no need anymore to trust third parties when you want to get e-mail to Santa.
And all those elves will be able to download elf-pr0n a lot faster.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
It's back in Norway, eh. Erik the Redbeard lifted up that pole out of the snow, sailed home to Norway, and planted it there. Doug MacKenzie is calling for a back-bacon embargo of Norway, eh.
So the north pole will now have better connectivity than parts of Loudon County, Va. Think Norway would be interesetd in hooking us up?
--trb
Maybe now Santa will return some of my emails!
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That really sounds like a made-up name. And if it's in the Arctic Circle, shouldn't it be Longdaybyen?
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Sort of strange to spend all that money then put the end users on VDSL. It's only got 1.5KM distance and 15Mbps. And we all know how reliable the great DSL is, I'm sure subzero temperatures won't affect it :\
Get paid to code OSS
Now I can call the phone company and say, "They've got DSL at the North Pole but you still can't figure out how to run it up my street?
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
This should help out a bit with cabin fever. I've lived in some cold places (upper Midwest) but damn. I imagine their problems with depression and suicide increase dramatically in the winter, so now they've got something to do. Now that I think about it, they already had one thing to do so I wonder how much the birth rate will decrease about 9 months after winter, now that they've got high-speed internet access (and pr0n).
I hear that Yelloknife and Inuivik are also pretty well wired.
You got flush toilets last year, what more do you want?
You mean Yellowknife and Inuvik? Yellowknife hasn't been bought out by Mello Yello...yet.
Satellite images of north pole