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Primary Benefits
The Northern Fiber Link will provide high-speed broadband service to the largest un-served geographic area in the United States, and meets the objectives of the Broadband Opportunities Program in The American Resource and Recovery Act by directly involving nearly 6,000 jobs across the U.S. in 23 states.
The communities in this region are isolated by geography and weather and are the most remote communities in the United States. Unemployment ranges up to 90 percent and the poverty rate is as high as 50 percent. The economy is primarily dependent upon federal and state jobs.
The Northern Fiber Link will transform the infrastructure of the region by improving delivery of education, health care and public safety services; the exchange of scientific information, and operations of the federal agencies in commerce, natural resources and national security.
For the first time ever the region’s medical clinics, hospitals, remote university campuses, schools, and public safety offices will have access to high-speed broadband telecommunications services.
Investing in the Future
Capacity will be made available by KKCC to telecommunications carriers on a competitively neutral, non-monopoly basis.