Residents in North Slope and Northwest Alaska communities have been experiencing internet and cellphone outages this week after a fiber-optic undersea cable was cut, likely by ice.
Quintillion’s president, Mike McHale, said repairs are underway, but a full restoration of service by repair ships could take up to two months.
“This will be a long-term outage,” he said. “We’re…
This story from alaskapublic.org was posted on 2023-06-14 by @oceanblaze.