The KKFL project affords a secure, high-speed telecommunication services to approximately 10 percent of Alaska’s population, the nation’s largest Coast Guard Base and a strategically important rocket launch facility, which is critical to the development of the Ground-based Midcourse Missile Defense system. Improved telecommunication delivery enhances economic and educational opportunities and health services for all communities connected by this system.
Carriers and their customers enjoy an immediate improvement in the quality of service. The benefits of cable over existing transmission media include greater reliability, secure transmission, more capacity and high-speed access free of delay problems. Improved telecommunication delivery enhances economic opportunities in many areas. The system design is sufficient to meet the total current requirements of users on Kodiak Island and the Kenai Peninsula and provides ample additional capacity for future traffic demand increases. The cost to the consumer for this improved service is competitive with existing services, providing Alaskans with affordable, high-speed telecommunication options.
The importance of a redundant system is underscored by the reliability requirements for a project serving such varied and important interests. Completion of the project enhances security and expands the potential benefits of this system beyond Kodiak and the Kenai Peninsula by improving communications reliability for Anchorage, Fairbanks and all of Interior Alaska.
