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SE rural phone service prepared for FCC changes

...construction."Garrett said funding for the project started with a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Utility Service. The microwave network first delivered broadband to Kasaan. It now provides service from Metlakatla to Skagway and...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-07-10/se-rural-phone-service-prepared-fcc-cha
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Spacenet brings Hoonah more broadband thanks to grant

...extension of around 30 already there. This equipment and installation comes free as part of a grant from the Rural Utility Service under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The $6.3 million spent from the grant is to provide broadband...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-06-26/spacenet-brings-hoonah-more-broadband-t
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High-speed Internet on its way to rural areas

...has received a $7.5 million grant from the Rural Utility Service under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to...costs," Georghiou said. Douglas said the Rural Utility Service allows the government to subsidize installation and...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/082710/loc_701040447.shtml
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RCA gets 1 more year

...a one-year "wind-down" of the commission that would have begun Monday. That endangered consumers of public utility services, he said. The bill that was finally approved puts off the wind-down year until July 1, 2003. Senate Judiciary...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/062702/sta_legrca.shtml
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Pelican avoids hefty increase in utility rates

...stipulations of the rate case settlement is that Kake Tribal may not claim any dividends or transfer cash, assets or utility service to its affiliates without receiving compensation at the approved tariff rate. Kake Tribal also must establish proper...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/072306/sta_20060723011.shtml
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Phone firms lock horns

...supervisor, she filed a complaint in September with the RCA, the state agency that regulates the cost and quality of utility services in Alaska. "The Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires ACS to treat GCI customers just like their own," said...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/101702/bus_phonebattle.shtml
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State Briefs

...Agriculture has awarded distance learning and telemedicine grants to two Alaska health organizations. The agency's Rural Utilities Service sent a $500,000 grant to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. The consortium provides direct telemedicine...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/102202/sta_briefs.shtml
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Alaska Digest

...flood FAIRBANKS - An Anchorage businessman has filed a million-dollar lawsuit against the city of Fairbanks and its utility services provider over flooding of a hotel in that city two years ago. Owner Michael L. Cusack and California resident Dan...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/121103/sta_akdigest.shtml
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State Briefs

...with high energy costs. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the money is being distributed through its Rural Utilities Service. Many remote Alaska communities would be eligible for the grant funds, said Allan Yost, the service's Alaska...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/122702/sta_stbriefs.shtml
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Federal regulators approve $118 million sale of Anchorage's Era Aviation

...and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska. It also uses its helicopters to fight fires and provide other utility services, and runs flightseeing tours in the summer. The company's Alaska regional fixed-wing airline has hubs in Anchorage...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/123004/sta_20041230009.shtml
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