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Aaron Helmericks
15:50 - 16:30
“one of the big ones was the AUA, or our Alaska United Aleutians Project, which serves 13 communities and approximately 8,000 residents along the Aleutian chain. That investment, and we'll touch on this, was both through public federal grants, RUS and NTIA, but also significant private investment from GCI to bring this project to completion.”
- Speaker
- Aaron Helmericks
- Timestamp
- 15:50 – 16:30
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 20, 2026
From the transcript
So to kind of touch on some of the recent projects that we've brought to bear to close the digital divide, one of the big ones was the AUA, or our Alaska United Aleutians Project, which serves 13 communities and approximately 8,000 residents along the Aleutian chain. That investment, and we'll touch on this, was both through public federal grants, RUS and NTIA, but also significant private investment from GCI to bring this project to completion. And it's a good illustration of what it really does take to close the digital divide in rural Alaska.
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