GCI.

• Author: Slaten, Russ
• Position: INSIDE ALASKA BUSINESS

GCI is partnering with wireless technology and services company Ericsson to bring advanced, high-speed fixed and mobile connections to Alaska's North Slope. GCI began construction and installation of its new advanced, high-speed wireless data network. The network will include a total of nine sites spanning from Kuparuk to Point Thomson, stretching more than 3,738 square miles, an area larger than the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. The new network will use LTE technology with data download speeds in excess of thirty megabits per second. This...