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Astranis and Pacific Dataport sign exclusive agreement to bridge Alaska's digital divide by Staff Writers Anchorage AK (SPX) Jan 18, 2019
Astranis Space Technologies Corp., building the next generation of telecommunications satellites to bring the world online, and Pacific Dataport Inc. (PDI), a company created for Alaskans by Alaskans to bridge the state's digital divide, has announced a signed agreement and commercial partnership to construct and launch the first-ever commercial Astranis satellite to dramatically increase bandwidth in Alaska and lower the price of internet access statewide. The satellite will launch in 2020 and provide 7.5 Gbps of capacity to roughly triple the currently available satellite capacity in in Alaska while also bringing costs down by an average of three times less than current pricing for both residential and wholesale customers. "We really couldn't have asked for a better first customer and a better partner," said John Gedmark, co-founder and CEO of Astranis. "Not just because of PDI's vision and dedication to bridging Alaska's digital divide, but also because this is a perfect opportunity to showcase our phased approach to bringing online the more than four billion people in the world without reliable internet access." Astranis and PDI will work closely alongside PDI founding partners Space Partnership International (SPI) and Microcom to accelerate the vision for a fully connected Alaska. "PDI was created specifically to address this connectivity problem in Alaska," said Chuck Schumann, founder of Pacific Dataport. "Through our work together, we ultimately hope to provide 40 Gbps - 50 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth to bring the entire state of Alaska online with broadband internet- including many in the state who have no access at all. The new agreement with Astranis is the first step toward making that dream a reality much faster than we could with one of the traditional big satellite manufacturers." According to Broadband Now, 39 percent of Alaskans are underserved when it comes to internet access - the highest rate of any state. At a global level, more than half of the world's population today is still not online, and if current growth rates persist, more than 3 billion people in the year 2020 still will not have the fast, reliable internet most of the United States take for granted.
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