CVT to Bring Gig Fiber Broadband to Remote Communities in Alaska

Copper Valley Telecom (CVT) plans to deploy gigabit fiber-to-the-home broadband service to the village of Tatitlek (AK) and surrounding communities of the Chugach Census Area of Alaska. The project on the southern coast of the state in the Prince William Sound area is being financed with a $16.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ReConnect program. CVT will build on a project that brought 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload service to Tatitlek in 2020; the current project will extend a subsea fiber cable from Valdez to the remote community of Ellamar (AK). The fiber broadband service will provide symmetrical 1 Gbps service to communities in Alaska. CVT has provided telecommunications and broadband services to the Valdez and Copper River Basis areas of Alaska for 60 years.