Bulk Infrastructure's proposed Leif Erikson cable would link Norway to Montreal via Canada, bypassing U.S. territory, but financing and customers remain unconfirmed.

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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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  • Kjell@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Cool more intercontinental connections are needed. Today there are surprisingly few connections between Europe and North America which is sensitive if Russia decide to sabotage it.

    There is also another major fiber project from Norway. That will go across the artic towards Japan and China, I think it would also connect to north America but I’m not sure if that was Alaska or Canada.