The cost of providing mobile broadband service to all targeted...
The cost of providing mobile broadband service to all targeted areas in Alaska would be “roughly $596 million,” Alaska carrier GCI said in a report it submitted to the FCC. The targeted markets are those previously identified as possible recipients…
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of support from the FCC Mobility Fund. The primary costs are tied to establishing cell sites and backhaul from the cell site to hub points in Fairbanks, Anchorage or Juneau, the report said. The model behind the report was developed by the Brattle Group (http://bit.ly/YwVtCG). “The State of Alaska encompasses a very large area (by itself equal to 20 percent of the land mass of the Lower 48 States combined), is sparsely populated (with roughly 1.2 people per square mile, compared with over 100 people per square mile on average in the Lower 48) and has a limited road system,” the report said. “Many of Alaska’s communities are remote, located completely off-road (accessible only by airplane, boat, or snow machine).”