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An Alaska health provider may close its doors following a national cyberattack last month, and is asking the state for temporary financial help.

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.

Across Alaska internet users are being offered $75-per-month discounts as pandemic relief. The subsidy on internet service is available for low-income…

A Palmer-based telecommunications company has nearly completed a 300-mile-long fiber-optic cable network called AlCan ONE that stretches from North Pole…

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…

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…

Ambitious project could connect remote Arctic communities to the world, through broadband.Editor's note: First of a two-part series.Dialup Internet access…