On: What should you know about Svalbard? (2020)

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There are fiber cables to the mainland:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Undersea_Cable_Syst...

Interestingly from that Wikipedia article:

  The Svalbard undersea cable system connecting the archipelago to the mainland was unexpectedly severed in January of 2022. A preliminary police investigation implicates human activity.