New CIO and CNO for Alaska Communications

Tony Dodge is promoted to Chief Network Officer, accountable for long-term strategic execution and deployment of the company’s network designs and plans. He oversees modernization of existing programs to increase performance and productivity, maximizing the use of automation to drive continuous improvement. This includes a renewed push to grow the company’s fixed wireless and fiber networks, expanding access for more customers across its footprint.

Dodge has more than twenty years of telecommunications and engineering experience in Alaska. An alumnus of UAF with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, he has shaped and helped execute broadband grants strategy, securing critical funding to bridge the digital divide in Alaska. He and his wife have four children and enjoy travel and performing arts.

Alaska Communications, the former Anchorage telephone utility, is an affiliate of Massachusetts-based ATN International and operates a robust and advanced statewide fiber network and a diverse undersea fiber optic system.