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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. Rednecks on the Net by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Eventually, they'll get all the redneck counties on the Web. So we can more than triple the love/hate Dixie Chicks fan sites.