Alaska connected: major broadband projects completed 19 February 2021 | Capacity Team Quintillion and GCI extended their coastal network in Alaska to two small towns, while Alaska Communications has also extended services to 3,700 remote locations. On 27 Jan, , with a total population of 7,100 people, are to get gigabit fibre broadband after Quintillion expanded its coastal network. Quintillion worked with the Liberty Broadband-owned GCI, Alaska’s largest local telco, to expand its fibre network to Nome, population 3,850, and Kotzebue, population 3,287. Quintillion CEO George Tronsrue said: “Our two Alaska companies have come together to provide the citizens of Nome and Kotzebue new capabilities to realize even greater social, family, medical, educational, and economic benefit and efficiency. We are happy to partner with GCI to bring these products to their customers. Quintillion is constantly seeking mutually beneficial partnerships that can have a positive impact on the state and its people, while narrowing the digital divide until we can eliminate it altogether.”