Repairs to the broken fiberoptic cable can’t happen until sea ice opens up enough for a repair vessel to get through.
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Internet is out for much of Western Alaska, and repairs could take weeks
Scouring from heavy ice is the likely cause of the fiber cut.
Alaska companies release private data for global seabed mapping project
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Walker visits Unalaska as cable vessel stops in port
The cable vessel Ile de Sein is on its way to the North Slope, where soon it’ll lay hundreds of miles of fiber optic cable for the Quintillion high-speed internet project.
French company promises Western Alaska high speed internet
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High-speed internet is on the way to Western Alaska
Quintillion will begin work laying subsea fiber optic cable off Nome’s coast the first week of July.
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