'These kinds of resources, they don’t come along very often,' Assistant Commerce Secretary Alan Davidson said. 'We’re going to spend tens of billions of dollars in this country. We’re going to spend billions here in Alaska, most likely.”
Crews carefully coiling more than 800 miles of subsea fiber-optic cable destined for the seafloor between Unalaska and Kodiak.
Assistant Commerce Secretary Alan Davidson speaks at a broadband summit in Anchorage on Aug. 9, 2022. Alaska Federation of Natives co-chair Ana Hoffman said the federal funding could be a huge help in Alaska, which Davidson described as one of the least connected states in the country when it comes to broadband.
Davidson also announced an agreement between the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Bureau of Indian Affairs to streamline the permitting process for high-speed internet projects on tribal lands.
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