Alaska Communications Boosts Broadband Speeds Alaska Communications states that the company's expansion of fiber is now allowing the company to offer 1 Gbps to businesses, and up to 50 Mbps to consumers in the state. A press release (pdf) only states that users in "certain areas" will be able to get the faster 50 Mbps speeds "soon," but the company fails to offer any additional detail or pricing. At the moment the company's residential speeds and prices won't be winning any awards. According to the company's website , their residential options range from 3 Mbps service for $89 a month, to a 10 Mbps tier for $109 a month. According to the company, neither these current options or the new 50 Mbps tier will have a usage cap.







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Mr_Toad

@hcs.net Mr_Toad Anon Wow... Broadband in Alaska is expensive! mdpeterman

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San Jose, CA mdpeterman Member Re: Wow... Since when is 7mbps and 10mbps "Super Fast"? lol

I couldn't do the cold or the Internet speeds in Alaska.

Mr_Toad

@66.158.209.x Mr_Toad Anon Re: Wow... Never said it was super fast. But, technically speaking, 7-10mbps IS considered broadband in this country. Heck, anything beyond 3mbps is considered broadband.

ropeguru

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Mechanicsville, VA ropeguru to Mr_Toad

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Most everything in Alaska is expensive.

cybah

join:2000-03-09

MA cybah Member Re: Wow... However, Alaskans get big tax breaks for living there (to ease the pain of living in darkness for half the year.

koolman2

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Anchorage, AK koolman2 Premium Member Re: Wow... We get the Alaska PFD every year. It's not exactly a tax break. brianiscool

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Tampa, FL brianiscool Member Re: Wow... How much money do you get a month?

koolman2

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Anchorage, AK koolman2 Premium Member Re: Wow... For living here? None. The PFD has historically been anywhere from $800 to $2000 and is once per year based on oil revenue. It is also taxed by the federal government.

WHT

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The Golden Igloo Except the strippers...so I have heard.The Golden Igloo jtel

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Bristol, RI jtel Member They Weren't Even Adding Customers 2 Years Ago I was in Sitka and they were not adding any customers at all. They were maxed out and existing users were seeing a lot of congestion. GCI owned the only fiber going to Sitka.



GCI has a lot better speeds but very expensive with small caps.

anonny

@denali.net anonny Anon Re: They Weren't Even Adding Customers 2 Years Ago There's no fiber internet going to Sitka. It's all microwave DS3. jtel

join:2005-06-28

Bristol, RI jtel Member Re: They Weren't Even Adding Customers 2 Years Ago There is fiber going to Sitka, A spur from Juneau.

koolman2

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Anchorage, AK koolman2 Premium Member Meanwhile, GCI is aiming 1 Gb Meanwhile, GCI currently offers 200 Mb and is aiming for 1 Gb by 2015 in Anchorage. Other locations will come later.

karlmarx

join:2006-09-18

Moscow, ID karlmarx Member Re: Meanwhile, GCI is aiming 1 Gb Yes, 200mb/sec and a 500GB cap.. Which you can reach in less than 12 hours. I was in alaska for a several months, and GCI is by far the WORST when it comes to bandwidth. Sure, they have some good speeds (at OUTRAGEOUS pricing), but EVERY SINGLE PLAN has a bandwidth cap that you can reach in 24 hours or LESS. Every plan from the basic $50.00 plan to the $200.00 plan, you WILL reach your cap in 24 hours or so. Sure, they 'may' offer 1GB/sec speeds, but I'm willing to bet you the cap will probably only be 800GB, which you can easily reach in less than 24 hours. No matter WHAT plan you get from them, prepare to be ripped off. Look at it this way, EVERY SINGLE PLAN has a cap that LIMITS you to about 4% of your total bandwidth. What's the point of a 100mb/sec plan that you an only use at 4mb/sec?

koolman2

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Anchorage, AK koolman2 Premium Member Re: Meanwhile, GCI is aiming 1 Gb If you drive your brand new car at top speed 24/7 you'd reach your warranty in a few weeks.



I never go over my cap and I have the 100 GB plan. In fact, I struggle to use all the usage per month - I find things to download that I wouldn't download otherwise. sonicmerlin

join:2009-05-24

Cleveland, OH sonicmerlin Member Re: Meanwhile, GCI is aiming 1 Gb If you're paying $200 a month there shouldn't be a cap.

Probitas

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Uhm, 500GB and 800GB are not low bandwidth caps. That would set you up with between 500 and 800 hours of streamed Netflix in HD for a month. It may be expensive, but if that's the cap, they are actually very generous. Are you sure you meant GB? Less than 24 hours to reach cap suggests MB is what you meant.

koolman2

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Anchorage, AK koolman2 Premium Member Re: Meanwhile, GCI is aiming 1 Gb With a 200 Mbps connection and a 500,000 MB cap (not quite 500 GB), you could theoretically reach your cap in just over 5 hours, 30 minutes. But seriously, who does that? acruxksa

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Anchorage, AK acruxksa to karlmarx

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I've got GCI's 20mb/s service with a 250GB cap (+25GB for having one of their cellphones). I've got three kids, no cable tv. 4 laptops, 2 xboxs, 1 ps4, 3 roku's, 2 chromcasts, one 6 gpu cryptocoin miner and a desktop computer.



We've gone over our cap once and that was last month because my middle son installed steam and downloaded 30GB twice.



That's not to say that I like the caps but they aren't nearly as restrictive as you make them sound. I am happy to hear ACS is finally upgrading their system but only because the competition will bring prices down. Their customer service isn't all that great either. mogamer

join:2011-04-20

Royal Oak, MI mogamer Member Alaska is harsh How many people here have been to Alaska in the winter? Building and (more importantly) maintaining infrastructure in such harsh conditions is pretty expensive. And of course spare parts can be hard to come by in some areas. The fact that a company can keep a fiber network working there is pretty good if you ask me.

McLovin

Chicka chicka yeah

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Fairbanks, AK McLovin Premium Member Re: Alaska is harsh I live in Fairbanks. And very much agreed. your comment..

