Internet

The milestone for the tribal-private partnership that has unspooled hundreds of miles of fiber optic cables along the seafloor, riverbeds, and tundra of the region comes at a time when little is certain about the future of rural broadband.

The Alaska House of Representatives is backing the preservation of a multibillion-dollar federal aid program that subsidizes internet access for rural schools, clinics, and households.

The apparent cable break is in a similar location to an outage in 2023 that left customers without internet for 14 weeks.

Quintillion, owner of the massive subsea fiber optic cable network connecting Prudhoe Bay and Nome, recently secured $25 million toward an extension of its planned 1,000-mile Nome to Homer Express Route.