broadband

Alaska’s internet connectivity is pretty poor compared to the rest of the country – the Federal Communications Commission ranks us 42nd among the states. Federal money is expected to build-out more internet infrastructure, but it will depend on how accurate we are in assessing the need.

A Palmer-based telecommunications company announced this week it’s begun work on a fiber-optic internet network that’ll connect Alaska to the Lower 48 by…

Residents of five North Slope communities will soon have access to much faster internet connections, now that Anchorage-based Quintillion has activated…

Updated: Fairbanks state Representative David Guttenberg will host a workshop Saturday on the UAF campus that'll explore the lack of broadband internet…

Broadband coming to northern Alaska on Dec. 1st …A spokesman for the Anchorage-based company that’s building a fiber-optic cable system in northern Alaska…

Concerns over an Arctic “brain drain” ...Ask any of the 11 local leaders from around the far north who participated in the recent Arctic Mayors Roundtable…

Participants in the Arctic Broadband Forum held this week at the University of Alaska Fairbanks got an update on the progress of a project that promises…

Bringing broadband to the Arctic …Dozens of experts from Arctic nations and elsewhere will meet in May for a two-day conference in Fairbanks to consider…

A boost for broadband in rural Alaska …The Federal Communications Commission last week announced it’ll give Alaska’s smaller telecoms up to a billion…

A high-level meeting on the need for broadband in the circumpolar north …Telecom-industry leaders from around the Arctic came to Barrow this month for a…