Airraq Network News Today

The Nushagak Cooperative, Choggiung Ltd. and the Curyung Tribe are partnering to develop a fiber-optic broadband network in the region. Under the new timeline, broadband will arrive in the region next fall.

The federal government in recent years has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Alaska to pay for new broadband extensions, including to the Western Alaska hub city.

First Lady Jill Biden, along with representatives of the Biden-Harris Administration, visited Bethel to discussed broadband internet connectivity in western Alaska.

Ana Hoffman is the president of the Bethel Native Corporation and serves as the co-chair of the Alaska Federation of Natives. She wants to inform the public about an important visit. Reporter Francisco Martínezcuello sat down with Hoffman to get the details.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — More than $100 million in grants have been announced by the federal government as part of a major effort to close the digital divide in parts of rural Alaska. The projects will improve upon an existing system of internet service that is a series of microwave transmitters with limited data transmission and vulnerability to bad weather, the Anchorage Daily News reported .

Anchorage, Alaska (PRWEB) October 28, 2022 -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska – With the announcement of the Airraq Network (pronounced EYE-huk) fresh in their memories,

Rollout plan in the region aided by $73 million broadband grants awarded by the NTIA Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program and the USDAs Rural Utilities Service ReConnect program. #pressrelease

/PRNewswire/ -- Affordable, reliable, high-speed internet is coming to Western Alaska! Bethel Native Corporation (BNC), in partnership with GCI, Alaskas...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- More than $100 million in grants have been announced by the federal government as part of a major effort to close the digital