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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.
GCI Sets Goal to Bring 10 Gig speeds to Alaska
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska / GCI will deliver 2 gigabit internet access to 77 percent of Alaskans in 2022 and is on track to provide 10 gigabit speeds in the next five years. GCI will be the first in the state, and among the first in the country, to make 2 gigabit widely available to customers, highlighting its commitment to expand and improve connectivity in Alaska.
GCI was among the first companies in the nation to make 1 gig service broadly available to customers when it launched 1 GIG red service in Anchorage in 2015, quadrupling customer speeds. The company rapidly expanded access to 1 gig service, and today 77 percent of Alaskans live within GCI s 1 gigabit footprint.
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