by alaskabusiness | Mar 31, 2020 | COVID-19, News, Telecom & Tech
NBC “American Ninja Warrior” competitor Nick Hanson, known around the state as the Eskimo Ninja, will stream a series of live, at-home workouts on GCI’s Facebook page to promote activity and mental health while Alaskans are staying in their homes and practicing social distancing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
by alaskabusiness | Mar 23, 2020 | COVID-19, News, Telecom & Tech
To support Alaskans who are working from home, adopting new social-distancing behaviors, and managing students who are home from school due to closures, GCI announced special packages to support Alaskans’ expanding need for connectivity at home.
by alaskabusiness | Feb 27, 2020 | Featured, News, Telecom & Tech
Supporting Alaska’s maritime industry, GCI is wrapping up the first phase of a project to deliver fiber optic connectivity to the Port of Alaska in Anchorage and laying the groundwork to extend that service to other shipping stakeholders in the area.
by alaskabusiness | Jan 28, 2020 | News, Telecom & Tech
Local crews and tower climbers from across the nation have converged on Anchorage to help GCI launch the nation’s northernmost 5G service in 2020.
by alaskabusiness | Jan 24, 2020 | Telecom & Tech
GCI crews recently finished upgrading equipment at forty-two microwave sites in Western Alaska to bring more capacity to the region and enable GCI to better manage and optimize network traffic.
by alaskabusiness | Aug 26, 2019 | News, Nonprofits
The 2019 GCI Suicide Prevention Fund will distribute more than $100,000 to nine recipient organizations this year, funding suicide prevention programs across Alaska.
by Tracy Barbour | Jul 22, 2019 | Magazine, Telecom & Tech
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a somewhat nebulous term associated with a plethora of technological advancements that are helping enhance the lives of consumers and business operations. These interconnected objects, which have unique identifiers, have the distinct capability of collecting and transferring data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.
by alaskabusiness | Jul 16, 2019 | Education, News, Telecom & Tech
Fifty Alaska students from communities across the state will receive $2,000 apiece in the 2019-2020 academic year through the GCI Scholarship Program in partnership with the Alaska Community Foundation.
by alaskabusiness | Jun 20, 2019 | News, Telecom & Tech
GCI announced a partnership with Ericsson to build the nation’s northernmost 5G network in Anchorage.
by alaskabusiness | Jun 6, 2019 | News, Telecom & Tech
New agreements with industry roaming partners mean that talk, text, and data costs have decreased for GCI customers traveling through Canada and Mexico.