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Article: Subsea Work Begins on Fiber Optic Cable Network in Southeast.
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- July 18, 2008
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Engineers skilled in laying undersea telecommunications cable will begin working in Southeast Alaska waters this month, placing 750 miles of fiber optic cable on the ocean floor, GCI officials announced today.
For residents in Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Angoon and Sitka this means high-speed connections for Internet, phone and video; in Juneau, residents will benefit from additional fiber optic cable creating a self-healing fiber ring within Southeast Alaska.
Shore-end operations are scheduled to commence July 18 in Ketchikan. Shore-end operations in Wrangell will be about four days later; in ...