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Alaska Communications (formerly Alaska Communications Systems or ACS) is a
Boys and Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska
to put on Summer of Heroes, a program which awards scholarships to youth who are engaged in community service.
telecommunications
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corporation headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage, officially the Municipality of Anchorage, is the List of cities in Alaska, most populous city in the U.S. state of Alaska. With a population of 291,247 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it contains nearly 40 percent of ...
. It was the first telecommunications provider in the state of Alaska to maintain a third-generation wireless network and the only provider in Alaska that owned fully incorporated infrastructure for the major telecommunications platforms; wireless communications, Internet networking, and local and long-distance phone service. Alaska Communications wireline operations include advanced data networks and an underwater fiber optic system. The Alaska Communications wireless operations included a statewide 3G CDMA
Code-division multiple access (CDMA) is a channel access method used by various radio communication technologies. CDMA is an example of multiple access, where several transmitters can send information simultaneously over a single communicatio ...
network, and coverage extended from the North Slope to Southeast Alaska.
History
The company was formed in 1998, when CenturyTel announced the sale of its Alaska operations (newly acquired fromPacifiCorp
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PacifiCorp has two business units: Pacific Power, a regulated electric utility with service territory thro ...
) to local management and Fox Paine & Company. In 1999, Alaska Communications acquired Anchorage Telephone Utility from the Municipality of Anchorage
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.
On February 3, 2014, Alaska Communications announced its purchase of TekMate.
On December 4, 2014, GCI Wireless agreed to purchase the wireless assets of Alaska Communications for $300 million. The deal was completed in the first quarter of 2015.
In July 2021, Alaska Communications was acquired by the Nasdaq-listed company ATN International Inc. for $343 million.
Current Projects
On May 25, 2017, Alaska Communications announced it will be offering Internet services viaOneWeb
OneWeb Communications Ltd., doing business as Eutelsat OneWeb, is a subsidiary of the French group Eutelsat providing broadband satellite Internet services in low Earth orbit (LEO). The company is headquartered in London, and has offices in P ...
.
Alaska Communications has an agreement with Quintillion to use its submarine fiber optic cable to bring new services to some of Alaska's northernmost communities: Utqiaġvik
Utqiagvik ( ; , ), formerly known as Barrow ( ), is the borough seat and largest city of the North Slope Borough, Alaska, North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located north of the Arctic Circle, it is one of the List of northernmost ...
, Nome
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, Kotzebue, Point Hope and Wainwright.
Community work
Alaska Communications supportsUnited Way
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, Junior Achievement
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, the University of Alaska, 90% by 2020, and FIRST in Alaska. It also partners witBoys and Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska
to put on Summer of Heroes, a program which awards scholarships to youth who are engaged in community service.
References
External links
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