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Category: Alaska
Alaska Broadband Provider Completes SEALink South Undersea Cable
Alaska Power & Telephone Company (AP&T) has completed the SEALink South submarine fiber optic cable project a year ahead of schedule. A $29.3M USDA ReConnect grant, along with matching investment from AP&T, funded the project.…
CVT to Bring Gig Fiber Broadband to Remote Communities in Alaska
Copper Valley Telecom (CVT) will build on an earlier project and deploy gigabit fiber-to-the-home broadband service to the village of Tatitlek and surrounding communities of the Chugach Census Area of Alaska. The project on the…
“We Take ‘Internet for All’ Seriously”: Alaska’s Broadband Director on Getting to 100%
A few years ago, an assessment of Alaska’s broadband needs suggested an investment of nearly $2 billion would be needed to bring high-speed connections to everyone in the nation’s largest state. The National Telecommunications and…
Alaska Communications Expansion Taps XGS-PON, FWA, Even DSL in the State’s Interior
Alaska Communications expanded broadband availability and boosted speeds to almost 5,000 homes in the Interior region of the state in 2022. And as a spokesperson explained in an email to Telecompetitor, the company used a…
Alaska (Still) Aims to Use State Broadband Map to Get Its Fair Share of BEAD Funding
Engineering firm Dewberry, in collaboration with mapping company Ecopia AI, Rasmuson Foundation and the State of Alaska, is working on a broadband map based on what Ecopia AI is calling “an accurate, up-to-date and complete…
Latest NTIA Tribal Broadband Grants Targets Alaska Natives
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) awarded $51 million in a pair of grants as part of the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program. NTIA received more than 300 applications for the program during the…
Bringing Internet to All of Alaska is Not Easy, GCI Begins Refueling Remote TERRA Towers
Alaska-based regional operator GCI is initiating its annual refueling of 22 mountaintop towers in remote areas of Alaska. The initiative is necessary because the towers – which are part of the Terrestrial for Every Rural…
GCI to Bring 2 Gbps to Alaska in 2022 with 10 Gbps in Sight
While 1 Gbps speeds has emerged as the standard for high-quality, high-speed broadband, GCI, Alaska’s largest telecommunications company, plans to bring 2 Gbps speeds to more than three-quarters (77%) of the state’s residents in 2022,…
Alaska Communications Sale Takes a New Turn
Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc. has agreed to be acquired by ATN International, Inc. and Freedom 3 Capital, LLC for $332 million, including net debt. ATN owns other telecom service providers, including some in the…
Alaska Will See FTTP Expansion Thanks to Latest ReConnect Awards
The USDA ReConnect program has awarded three grants totaling $11.3 million that will add Alaska FTTP based projects. In all, the projects potentially will serve 1,343 people, 52 businesses and other important locations such as…
Alaska Communications Acquisition Will Take the Company Private
An affiliate of Macquarie Capital and GCM Grosvenor said today that it will purchase Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc. The Alaska Communications acquisition is a $300 million, all-cash transaction, the telecom company announced today. Under…