Crisis Over: Alaska City's Internet Returns

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2024 – An isolated Alaska community reachable only by air and sea lost its main internet and mobile service last month, causing thousands to adjust their lives and businesses to a vexing Internet-age disruption.

On Saturday, Alaska's leading communications company, GCI, said the broadband network had been repaired and all services restored to the 9,000 people of the city of Sitka.

"GCI teams worked through the night and have successfully restored all services in Sitka. We will continue to closely monitor our network over the next several days for any intermittent issues that may arise as the network stabilizes," GCI spokesman Josh Edge said in an email to Broadband Breakfast.