This map shows the amended version of Arctic Fibre’s proposed cable route, with a backbone line running along the eastern coast of Hudson Bay through Chisasibi to Montreal and New York. (IMAGE COURTESY OF ARCTIC FIBRE)
Arctic Fibre to extend high-speed undersea backbone past Nunavik
Firm applies for eastern Hudson Bay landing licences
For many Nunavik residents tired of poor long-distance landline phone service, dodgy cell phone connections and slow broadband internet, there’s a potential solution that could be in place by the end of 2014: undersea fibre-optic cable.
Arctic Fibre Inc., the firm that’s planning to install a undersea fibre optic cable to connect London, New York and Tokyo through the waters of the Canadian Arctic, announced Oct. 3o that they’ve amended their plan to include a backbone connection that would extend along the eastern side of Hudson Bay from Cape Dorset to Kuujjuarapik and Chisasibi.
From there it would run through James Bay Cree territory down to Montreal and New York City, cutting many hundreds of kilometres off the cable system’s link between Tokyo and New York.
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