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I hope Juneau gets it, but i really doubt it because of the area its in.
Maybe I'm too lazy to read the site, since I'm not and don't plan to be a Juneauian any time soon... but is this the 100 gbit or whatever Google was bringing to towns? Seems crazy, but it's probably hard to find profit in Alaska.
I read the site. If you read the article you did too, since it's nothing but a no content added paste. Other than what you see here, there's a few letters to google from politicians lying about how great Alaska would be for them to try fiber in.
There's actually a pretty large effort to get fiber service from Google in Anchorage. Wouldn't Alaska present some interesting challenges to Google's service that might help them temper the connection against other problems?
I think that the challenge of creating a 1gbps fiber network for an entire area and the infrastructure needed to support it is a large enough one itself, and that Google is looking for a well-suited place to try this out in more than they are looking to battle-test it at much higher cost. Alaska creates many problems just in getting equipment here. And other stuff. thingssss
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