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GCI announced that it will conduct a marine survey as it continues to push ahead with its goal of bringing high-speed broadband internet to the Aleutian Islands and five other rural Alaska communities by late 2022.
According to a news release on Thursday, GCI will partner with Matanuska Valley-based Benthic GeoScience to conduct the survey using the R/V Norseman II, a fishing vessel repurposed for the upcoming assignment.Â
The survey is part of GCIâs Alaska United Aleutians Fiber Project, funded by a $25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agricultureâs ReConnect program and $33 million from GCI. Once completed, it would provide high-speed internet to Unalaska and Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians, as well as Larsen Bay on Kodiak, King Cove, Sand Point, Akutan and Chignik Bay.
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GCI says it will double its top internet speed next year to 2 gigs, among the nation’s fastest Published 6 hours ago
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Print article Alaska’s largest telecommunications provider on Tuesday announced plans to double its top internet speed to 2 gigabits per second, among the fastest speeds available in the U.S. GCI will roll out the service community-by-community sometime next year, along its fiber network in the Interior, Southcentral and Southeast Alaska, officials with the company said in an online press event Tuesday. “Starting next year, people from Fairbanks through to Juneau, everyone on the road and our fiber network, will be able to get 2-gig service,” said Ron Duncan, chief executive and a founder of GCI.