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Norwegian Company Pitches 2,800-Mile Undersea Cable Linking Canada and Europe to Bypass the US (www.gadgetreview.com)
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  • Bulk Infrastructure proposes a 6,500-kilometer Norway-to-Montreal cable bypassing U.S. territory entirely.
  • Costs exceed $620 million, with financing, customers, and route surveys still unresolved.
  • Routing around U.S. territory does not guarantee independence from American networks downstream.

Norwegian infrastructure company Bulk Infrastructure is proposing a direct fiber cable from Norway to Canada, routed around the United States entirely. The project, named Leif Erikson, remains a proposal, not a construction announcement.

Canada currently has relatively few direct international cable options that avoid U.S. routing, a structural gap the project is designed to address. That context, combined with growing government interest in infrastructure resilience, gives the proposal its strategic weight.

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[โ€“] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I dont understand the last point, are we saying the existence of the cable outside the US doesn't prevent US tech being used on it? Because that isnt a con, its a given and how the infrastructure should work. It would never be a private network, if it is for comms anyone can use it. Likely, the US could just buy pairs to use themselves but the location gives it opportunity.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    The cable itself isn't what's at issue, it's whom owns the infrastructure on the end of it. ie if a European owned cable crosses the Atlantic and lands in America into a landing station owned by AT&T or Comcast it's reliant on US compliance in its traffic. America has proven itself to be a hostile power to European interests now and therefore cannot be relied upon.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Yeah but it isn't landing into the US. It would be proper order to take control of sucb infrastructure at a state level and not have private industry manage the nodes.

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