Why the future of satellite internet might be decided in rural Alaska

ronjor · Feb 15, 2019

by Erin Winick February 14, 2019

Service in the rural areas of the state is abysmal, which makes it the perfect place to test next-generation satellite internet.
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mirimir · Feb 16, 2019

Not to mention rural Africa

stapp · Feb 16, 2019

Rural places can fight back against poor internet service .

Situated 1,000ft above sea level and surrounded by rugged moorland, the town of Alston is at the centre of ‘England’s last wilderness’.
The Cumbrian settlement is so isolated it was cut off by snow last year, forcing the military to airdrop supplies via Chinook helicopter.
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It is one of the first places in the world to receive a 5G mobile network, giving its 1,100 residents internet speeds most city-dwellers could only dream of.
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Local farmers dug trenches to lay a network of fibreoptic cables and transmitters were nailed to cowsheds and chimneys.
Within a year, a higher proportion of houses in Alston were connected to broadband than in Silicon Valley.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...market-town-one-places-world-5G-internet.html

ronjor · May 1, 2019

Alaska Will Finally Get Its Own Fiber-Optic Line

Clint Finley 05.01.19
Alaska has the slowest average internet connections in the US. That's in part because it can be hard to connect some of the state’s remote communities to modern internet infrastructure. But it’s also because the state's only connections to the global internet run through four submarine cables, along with slower satellite and wireless connections. There’s no terrestrial fiber-optic connection from Alaska to Canada or the contiguous US.
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