 Brat75I remember 8-tracks
join:2003-02-05
Kent, WA | Undersea fiber optic cables Have already been in use for quite a few years now.
GCI, the other large telco in Anchorage, has at least 2 direct fiber optics from Anchorage down to Seattle. And there are more, like one from Seward and Juneau to Seattle.
So far, the only negative thing I've heard about undersea fiber optic cable was that a propeller from a boat cut one. Really, few years ago a boat cut one of the lines. Screwed up bandwidth, but hey, we still had connections.
Alaska is interesting in that it's a large land mass with minimal infrastructure and minimal population. Anchorage is the largest city, with a pop of 280K. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorage%2C_Alaska
Heck, a lot of the villages out in the Bush still don't have running sewer systems... Let's hope that ACS will up the coverage and put more towers out in the Bush, for the people out there who need help.
Brat75
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