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Broadband in Rural Alaska

Talk of Alaska by Alaska Public Media

Jun 28, 202300:58:58News & Politics

No online banking, no Amazon orders, no internet classes. A broken fiber optic cable buried far below the Beaufort Sea ice, north of Oliktok Point has brought internet service for a wide swath of Arctic communities to di...

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Broadband in Rural Alaska is an episode from Talk of Alaska by Alaska Public Media. No online banking, no Amazon orders, no internet classes. A broken fiber optic cable buried far below the Beaufort Sea ice, north of Oliktok Point has broug...

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