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Jul 4, 2011 | MSNBC

GCI's "Project Terra" Moves Forward. Crews Lay Cable Across Cook Inlet

Work continues this holiday weekend on a fiber optic cable across Cook Inlet. Crews based on theA IT Intrepid, a telecom cable laying ship, have been laying cable under the water since last month.

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Fri Jun 17, 2011

Alaska Journal of Commerce

Powerhouses built in Anchorage, shipped to rural communities

Bob Havemeister, a rural electric utility worker with the Alaska Energy Authority, leans on a generator set inside a powerhouse that will soon be shipped to Ruby.

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Wed Apr 13, 2011

Fiber Optics Online

First Milestone In Historic Project Brings Southwest Alaska 43...

April 13, 2011 Fiber Laying between Igiugig and Levelock for TERRA-SW Completed Anchorage, AK TERRA-Southwest , a project that will extend terrestrial broadband service for the first time to Bristol Bay and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta , recently reached its first milestone.

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Tue Apr 12, 2011

The Cordova Times

GCI's terrestrial broadband service project takes a big step forward

A telecommunications project that will extend terrestrial broadband service for the first time to Bristol Bay and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta has reached its first milestone, and GCI officials said today that they expect to begin offering service in early 2012.

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