Alaskan company building subsea fibre network through Arctic region adds general

ANCHORAGE — U.S. Arctic subsea and terrestrial fibre network operator Quintillion is beefing up its security and defence know-how and rhetoric with the announcement retired U.S. general Charles H. Jacoby Jr. is joining its team as a senior strategic advisor. Quintillion’s current network consists of more than 1,600 miles of fibre-optic cable spanning the Alaskan Arctic. The company’s three-phase plan for its subsea cable system will ultimately connect Asia to the American Pacific Northwest and to Western Europe via the Northwest Passage through the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. “We are excited to welcome General Jacoby to the team,” said George...