The company has given Canadian carriers and government bodies until September 1 to request bandwidth on the network, which has a proposed launch date of November 1 2014.
The route is said to provide the lowest latency between Japan and England with a round trip latency of 168 milliseconds. It could also bring much needed connectivity to communities in the Canadian and Alaskan Arctic.
Some market insiders have, however, questioned whether deploying fibre across the Arctic is feasible.
