About once or twice a year ADN writes an article about the poor or no rural broadband internet service. I hazard to guess that there are as many locations within a few miles of urban Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau with unreliable or no broadband service as well. As long as the telecommunications providers in Alaska are allowed to cherry pick internet customers there never will be reliable affordable internet service. Even in the core areas of Alaska's 3 largest cities internet coverage is expensive and inferior to most 3rd world countries. I cannot think of any larger road block to economic development in Alaska than the poor inadequate internet service through out the State.