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Wrangell is ideal because there are people with spotty service, but it’s not such a remote community that the Tribe would struggle to get people and equipment to town.

The infrastructure bill establishes $2 billion in funding specifically for tribal communities — Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiians.

No phone numbers will change because of the new rules, and what counts as a local versus long-distance call will remain the same. 

Residents of Western Alaska villages pay several hundreds of dollars a month for data speeds that max out at 10 Mbps.

Tlingit & Haida Tribal Vice President Will Micklin called broadband “an inherent right for our tribal citizens” — and said COVID-19 had made the digital divide even more apparent.

A new program from the FCC is giving tribes across the country the opportunity to claim licenses within the 2.5 GHz spectrum that would allow them to provide broadband to their communities.

Alaska could join the ranks of states fighting to restore net neutrality. The Walker-Mallott administration has no immediate plans, but one lawmaker does.

More than 2,500 comments were submitted to the FCC this year with Juneau addresses. There’s evidence that identities were stolen to submit millions of comments to the Federal Communications Commission arguing against net neutrality.

After a brief security evacuation, the agency voted to undo Obama-era regulations that prohibit cable and telecom companies from blocking access to websites and apps or influencing how fast they load.