Nome Residents Continue Wait For Quintillion High-Speed Internet
Residents of Nome continue to wait to access high-speed internet through Quintillion’s fiber-optic cable, though a handful of business customers are now connecting to it.
GCI Refuels Mountaintop Towers — Using Only Helicopters
To keep its TERRA broadband network running, each summer GCI has to refuel, by air, giant diesel tanks at 22 remote mountaintop repeater sites throughout Western Alaska.
GCI Expansion in Noatak Means Faster Speeds — and a New Challenge
People now have access to high-speed internet at Noatak and the Red Dog Mine, bringing a boost in service — and along with it, the risk of higher internet bills.
GCI Expands High-Speed Broadband to Norton Sound Villages
Residents of six Norton Sound villages can expect to see high-speed terrestrial broadband coverage from GCI by the end of 2017, the company says.
Power Outage, Equipment Failures Temporarily Disrupt Long-Distance Services in Western AK
Marshall, Mountain Village, Russian Mission, and St. Mary’s were without wireless, internet, or long distance service for three days. According to GCI’s senior director of corporate communications, Heather Handyside, services were restored on Saturday.
Quintillion Appoints Interim CEO
Anchorage-based telecommunications company Quintillion has appointed an interim CEO following the resignation of its former CEO, Elizabeth Pierce, last week. She cited personal reasons.
GCI Says to its Customers “No Worries”, Increases Data Plan for “Rural Hub Communities”
As of Tuesday, customers in Nome, Kotzebue, Bethel, and Utqiagvik, were automatically upgraded to the No Worries Plan, which will cost almost half as much as GCI’s current 100 gigabyte plan while also providing more data.
With New Tech, a Promise of Faster Internet in Noorvik
As you fly over the Kobuk river, the new GCI tower can be seen from the air. At around 100 feet tall, it’s one of the tallest structures in the village.
Wired
While KNOM has no official IT Manager amongst our staff positions, you’d never know it with the thorough, dedicated volunteer work of intrepid chief engineer Rolland Trowbridge. As we go to press, Rolland’s latest improvement project at KNOM is to re-route and re-organize our office building’s ethernet cabling: the wiring our staff uses to access […]
Coming soon: a special award – and warmer weather
The winter weather is lingering as the daylight grows, and temperatures are hovering around 5 degrees above zero. Warmer days are just around the corner, and soon, the ice will begin to melt. Many times, however, chunks of ice on the shore of the Bering Sea remain well into June, blowing out to sea only as the summer solstice looms. KNOM keeps listeners […]