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Francis Chapelle
27:16 - 27:51
“Our BID award, $108 million, which is pretty large. We matched that with $36 million of our own investment. And we're going to hit over 10,000 locations with that.”
- Speaker
- Francis Chapelle
- Timestamp
- 27:16 – 27:51
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 20, 2026
From the transcript
Our BID award, $108 million, which is pretty large. We matched that with $36 million of our own investment. And we're going to hit over 10,000 locations with that. And we, you know, the bead calculations, the bead project for each of us was to go after the locations that we— that were, you know, in various service areas and try to maximize the number of locations you could hit and minimize the average cost per location. And so that's what we did.
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