“This outage affects everyone, personally and professionally,” Utqiagvik resident Mary Samuelu said. Others turned to satellite internet alternatives to get back online, and some residents were unplugging all together. To address the challenges, some were going back to analog operations - like businesses pivoting to cash transactions or libraries manually checking out books. Several residents in affected communities couldn’t use their phones to communicate with friends and family, and some businesses struggled to conduct financial transactions without having an internet connection.
Many city government services were down in Utqiagvik and Kotzebue. Since the breakage, Utqiagvik, Wainwright, Point Hope, Kotzebue, Nome and Atqasuk have experienced service interruptions, which varied widely among the telecommunication providers using Quintillion’s fiber system, McHale said.
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Fixing the fiber cut might take between six and eight weeks, depending on when the ice breaks up and how challenging the repairs will be, Quintillion President Mac McHale said. On Sunday, heavy ice movement 34 miles offshore from Utqiagvik cut the subsea fiber network operated by broadband provider Quintillion. Since a fiber outage left multiple Northwest Alaska and North Slope communities without internet and cell service last weekend, telecommunications service providers have been scrambling to restore connection - and some agencies, residents and businesses are adapting to pursue their own solutions. A bicyclist crosses Front Street in Nome on June 28, 2019.
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