Khanjee Holdings Inc. and the Kodiak-Kenai Cable Company (owned by the Alaska Native Corporations Old Harbor Native Corp. and the Ouzinkie Native Corp.) want to build a fiber-optic cable from Tokyo to London by way of the Arctic Ocean: Arctic fiber-optic cable could benefit far-flung Alaskans (Elizabeth Bluemink, Anchorage Daily News). Boosters say the $1 billion project could cut data transmission time from Japan to the U.K. in half. The shrinking Arctic ice cover is creating this opportunity.
Plans call for two connections with Alaska - in Dutch Harbor and in Prudhoe Bay. Cable access could have a big impact in rural Alaska:
...it could provide high-speed, reliable Internet to Bethel, Kotzebue, Nome and other communities. In the future, the network could be expanded to bring broadband Internet to 142 villages...
For now, most rural Alaska communities rely on satellite-based Internet, which is expensive and sometimes transmits data to households and businesses even more slowly than a dial-up Internet connection....
She [Denise Michels, Mayor of Nome - Ben] said high-speed Internet could create a lot of economic opportunities in her town and improved communication between local doctors and national medical experts. "
Developers are looking for $350 million in loans and grants from U.S. stimulus funding.
Hi, my name is Ava and I'm the blog moderator for a marine site called The Reef Tank (http://www.thereeftank.com)
Had a particular question to ask you, Ben, but there's no e-mail address available. Can you please e-mail me at [email protected]? Thank you for your time.
Ava
Posted by: Ava | January 18, 2010 at 06:23 AM
All this is cable is going to help the non usa companys to rake alaska of it oil and gold to Tokyo and London I say don't let them do it It should be only USA companys at pumpo oiland mine other metal, wood from Alaska that the mony say in the USA & alaska Not london (BP)BE american buy from only USA OWN Company Are Country would be better off.
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