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Quintillion: Repair Ships Are Days Away From Subsea Cable Break Site

A pair of submarine cable repair ships should arrive at the Point Barrow repair site in the next few days to deal with a damaged subsea fiber line, Alaska's Quintillion said Wednesday. The company said in January that the damaged…

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line could result in "prolonged" outage of its service to North Slope and northwest Alaskan communities (see 2501220001). When the ships, the IT Integrity and the CanPac Valkyrie, arrive at the repair site, crews will start locating and recovering the damaged cable, Wednesday's update said. Repair and testing could take up to a week, with cable burial extending potentially for an additional two weeks, it added.