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Norway to Wire North Pole

Posted by michael on from the tv's-on-the-fritz-again dept.

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..."

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  1. What North Pole? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's no North Pole in this story except the title. Makes TomMajor look like quite a sucker.

  2. North Pole isn't in Norway! by psyconaut · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Isn't the (magnetic) North Pole in Canadian arctic waters? (Bear in mind there is no land mass North Pole!).

    -psy