Alaska internet ‘gold rush’: Billions could be headed to rural communities to close the digital divide
“A ‘gold rush’ is on for Alaska tribes and Native corporations that are trying to capture a surge of federal infrastructure money to provide city-quality broadband service in more than 200 villages statewide.
Representatives for the groups say this could be their moment to transform lives and village economies by upgrading the glitchy, slow and often unaffordable cell phone and internet service that exists across rural Alaska.
‘This will be life-changing,’ said Kevin Hamer, general manager of Yukon Kuskokwim Delta Tribal Broadband Consortium.”