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Alaska wired! We're the most wired state in the nation. Even rural Alaska is jumping onboard.
Though the least populous, most remote state in the country, Alaska is also considered the most wired, ranking No. 1 for home computer penetration and Internet access. A whopping 83.7 percent of Alaska homes are plugged in. It is estimated that Alaskans sign up for high speed service three times more than the national average. According to Alaska's top telecommunications providers, by the end of 2004, 99.5 percent of the state will have local Internet access, including most rural villages.
After Alaska, in terms of percentage of the population with Internet access, is Colorado at 47 percent, followed by Maryland and Utah, each with 46 percent. Mississippi is ...
- Under the land, beneath the sea: Alaska gets new fiber optic links to world.
- Magazine article from: Alaska Business Monthly Cutler, Debbie May 1, 1998 700+ words
...Fairbanks - the longest fiber-optic link in Alaska to date - was laid...only a small part of fiber optic expansion in Alaska. World Net is currently...s 2,331-mile fiber optic line - which will connect Alaska's major population...
- Anchorage, Alaska-Based General Communication Inc. Funds Fiber-Optic Link.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News February 7, 2004 700+ words
...sea, providing Alaska with another high...the 1,544-mile fiber-optic cable, which initially...every person in Alaska to make 12 long...second interstate fiber-optic line. Its other...T Alascom and Alaska Communications Systems...on WCI Cable's fiber-optic line. ...
- GCI to Build $115 Million Alaska United Fiber Optic Cable System
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 4, 1997 700+ words
...building of a $115 million fiber optic cable called Alaska United. The 2,331...Currently, the only fiber optic cable connecting Alaska with the contiguous United...pleased to be part of the Alaska United fiber optic cable system," said...
- In Alaska, Anchorage-Fairbanks Fiber-Optic Link Readies for Business.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News April 7, 1998 700+ words
...larger effort to lay fiber-optic cables across the state and between Alaska and the Lower 48...providing the only fiber-optic link between Anchorage...Fairbanks now, Alaska Fiber Star will...is laying its own fiber-optic link between the two cities. Alaska Fiber ...
- Alaska Communications Systems Selects Tyco Telecommunications to Construct Long...
- Press release article from: Business Wire October 25, 2007 700+ words
...contract to construct an undersea fiber optic cable system that will provide high...connectivity between Anchorage, Alaska, and Florence, Oregon. The system...diverse state-of-the-art undersea fiber optic link. "This fiber facility, coupled...
- General Communication to Lay Fiber-Optic Line from Alaska to Oregon.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News July 1, 2003 700+ words
...million undersea fiber-optic cable connecting...line connecting Alaska with the Lower 48...the line because Alaska needs more fiber-optic capacity. In fact...older, much smaller fiber-optic cable between Alaska and the Lower 48...
- State, Local Leaders in Alaska Consider Fiber Optic Plans.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News September 28, 2003 700+ words
...and other remote areas in Alaska may have cables connected...constructing an undersea fiber optic cable from mainland Alaska to Kodiak Island. The...different ways ... so Alaska's kind of a fiber optic hodgepodge at this point...
- GCI to Build $30 Million Southeast Alaska Fiber Optic Cable Network.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 29, 2007 700+ words
...new $30 million fiber optic network in Southeast Alaska. The 754 miles of...the state leader in fiber optic systems, owning...three networks tying Alaska to the lower 48...construction of the fiber optic cable network out...