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Americans are adopting 1 gig internet faster than ever, but GCI customers are upping their home internet speeds even more quickly in Alaska. In fact, GCI customers have signed up for 1 gig internet service at four times the national rate.
An article by tech news outlet Light Reading noted the pandemic fueled demand for increased speed and capacity as Americans who were hunkered down consumed more content and many began working and learning from home. In Q1 2021, 9.8 percent of internet customers nationwide subscribed to a 1 gig plan a 261 percent increase from the same time period during the previous year.
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GCI announced that it will conduct a marine survey as it continues to push ahead with its goal of bringing high-speed broadband internet to the Aleutian Islands and five other rural Alaska communities by late 2022.
According to a news release on Thursday, GCI will partner with Matanuska Valley-based Benthic GeoScience to conduct the survey using the R/V Norseman II, a fishing vessel repurposed for the upcoming assignment.Â
The survey is part of GCIâs Alaska United Aleutians Fiber Project, funded by a $25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agricultureâs ReConnect program and $33 million from GCI. Once completed, it would provide high-speed internet to Unalaska and Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians, as well as Larsen Bay on Kodiak, King Cove, Sand Point, Akutan and Chignik Bay.