FCC’s Trusty Reports on Week-Long Visit to Alaska
Says FCC broadband programs spurring deployment.
WASHINGTON, August 26, 2025 – After returning from a week-long trip to Alaska, Commissioner Olivia Trusty of the Federal Communications Commission on Monday highlighted the efforts, investments, and policies to deliver high-speed internet to some of the nation’s most remote and difficult-to-serve areas.
“Broadband connectivity is a game-changer in rural America,” said Trusty in a press release. “Nowhere is the challenge of expanding broadband access more acute than in Alaska, where rugged terrain and vast distances make it both difficult and expensive to connect remote villages.”
Trusty spent the week meeting with broadband providers, as well as federal, state, local, and Tribal leaders to witness firsthand some of the work underway for broadband expansion. She began her trip in Bethel and Eek, where she toured wireless infrastructure sites and visited the Ayaprun Elitnaurvik Cultural School and YukonKuskokwim Health Corporation, a Tribal healthcare system serving rural communities across southwest Alaska.
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