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GCI Refuels Mountaintop Towers — Using Only Helicopters

By admin | July 19, 2018 | 1
A GCI telecommunications tower in rural Alaska, silhouetted by a fiery sunset

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.

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Fellowship Sends Alaska Natives to Hollywood Diversity Forum

By admin | November 30, 2017
Vanessa Sweet working on animation

The telecommunications company GCI is partnering with the nonprofit Walter Kaitz Foundation to send two Alaska Natives to the 2018 Hollywood Creative Forum in Los Angeles.

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GCI Says to its Customers “No Worries”, Increases Data Plan for “Rural Hub Communities”

By Davis Hovey | July 27, 2017
GCI TERRA 2016-2017 Expansion. Reposted with permission from GCI.

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.

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Fiber Broadband Coming to Nome by Year’s End, Quintillion Says

By Davis Hovey | June 13, 2017
A cable-laying vessel with Quintillion, viewed from Nome's Front St. Photo: Lauren Frost/KNOM

40 more miles of fiber optic cable: Kristina Woolston with Quintillion says “that one critical piece is what we have left to install this summer.” Quintillion plans to go live with its fiber optic service on December 1.

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‘Arctic Fiber’ Project Delayed into 2016

By admin | December 19, 2014
Both the subsea Arctic cable, and a terrestrial cable along the Dalton Highway, are seeing delays that could push the rollout of Quintillion's ultrafast broadband network in rural Alaska to 2016 or beyond. Image: Quintillion Networks.

Delays in both the subsea Arctic cable, and a terrestrial cable along the Dalton Highway, could push the rollout of ultrafast broadband in rural Alaska to 2016 or beyond.

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