According to a fascinating report over on Capacity this morning, the melting ice up north has brought with it a new iteration of Arctic cable dreams. A new cable project is close to lining up the backing necessary to connect East Asia and Europe via a northern route.
But beyond that, details are still vague yet. And by details I mean minor questions like ‘who’, ‘where’, and ‘how’. Finland’s Cinia is involved, as is the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.