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  "description": "Says FCC broadband programs spurring deployment.  ",
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  "publishedAt": "2025-08-26T17:50:00.000Z",
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    "_press release_",
    "_Ayaprun Elitnaurvik Cultural School_",
    "_YukonKuskokwim Health Corporation_",
    "_****There's a whole community behind your FREE membership...****_",
    "Join the Community!",
    "_Rural Health Care Program_",
    "_Alaska Municipal League_",
    "_Alaska Connect Fund_",
    "_Connect America Fund Phase II_"
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, August 26, 2025 – After returning from a week-long trip to Alaska, Commissioner **Olivia Trusty** of the Federal Communications Commission on Monday highlighted the efforts, investments, and policies to deliver high-speed internet to some of the nation’s most remote and difficult-to-serve areas.\n\n“Broadband connectivity is a game-changer in rural America,” said Trusty in a _press release_. “Nowhere is the challenge of expanding broadband access more acute than in Alaska, where rugged terrain and vast distances make it both difficult and expensive to connect remote villages.”\n\nTrusty spent the week meeting with broadband providers, as well as federal, state, local, and Tribal leaders to witness firsthand some of the work underway for broadband expansion. She began her trip in Bethel and Eek, where she toured wireless infrastructure sites and visited the _Ayaprun Elitnaurvik Cultural School_ and _YukonKuskokwim Health Corporation_, a Tribal healthcare system serving rural communities across southwest Alaska.\n\n\n\n_****There's a whole community behind your FREE membership...****_\n\n Join the Community! \n\nMaking her way to the Kenai Peninsula, accompanied by Sen. **Lisa Murkowski** (R-Alaska) and staff from Sen. **Dan Sullivan** (R-Alaska)**,** Trusty toured the Central Peninsula Hospital, a facility supported through the FCC’s _Rural Health Care Program_ that provides funding to eligible health care providers for telecommunications and broadband services necessary to deliver health care. She also viewed fixed wireless projects serving surrounding communities.\n\n“Notwithstanding these challenges, Alaska’s providers are leveraging FCC programs to deliver high-speed broadband services to communities across the state, opening access to education, healthcare, commerce, and economic opportunity for thousands of Alaskans,” said Trusty.\n\nBottom row on right, FCC Commissioner ****Olivia Trusty**** beside Sen. ****Lisa Murkowski**** (R-Alaska).\n\nTrusty’s final stops were Wasilla, where she met with internet and voice service providers from across Alaska to review fiber deployment initiatives, and Juneau, where she spoke with state and local officials, including staff from Gov. **Mike Dunleavy** and the _Alaska Municipal League_, and toured a subsea cable landing station.\n\nTrusty noted that the FCC’s Build America Agenda has helped drive some of Alaska’s progress towards closing the digital divide in the state.\n\n“The FCC’s recent efforts to accelerate broadband deployment under the Build America Agenda – including, streamlining Commission rules to speed high-speed infrastructure builds, removing outdated regulatory barriers, and promoting U.S. leadership in wireless services – are already making a tangible difference,” said Trusty.\n\nThroughout her trip, Trusty also engaged with government officials and broadband providers participating in the _Alaska Connect Fund_ and _Connect America Fund Phase II_, both FCC programs to fund broadband expansion.\n\n“While Alaska remains one of the most challenging places in the country to close the digital divide, I look forward to working with my colleagues at the FCC to ensure that Alaskans have the same opportunity as all Americans to participate in the 21st century digital economy,” Trusty concluded.",
  "title": "FCC’s Trusty Reports on Week-Long Visit to Alaska",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-11T05:47:09.683Z"
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