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USDA grant award expands AIRRAQ broadband fiber project to three more rural Alaska communities

PR Newswire - Tue Aug 22, 2023

$35 million grant will deliver connectivity to Tununak, Toksook Bay and Emmonak

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GCI announced today that it has been awarded a $35 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development's ReConnect program to bring fiber-optic connectivity to Toksook Bay, Emmonak, and Tununak. Connectivity will be delivered to the three communities through an expansion of the AIRRAQ Network, a joint GCI-Bethel Native Corporation (BNC) project to deliver high-speed broadband service to communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

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