GCI Refuels Mountaintop Towers — Using Only Helicopters
![A GCI telecommunications tower in rural Alaska, silhouetted by a fiery sunset](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/dime_tower_sunset_2.slideshow-e1523466105252.jpg)
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.
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.