AT&T And Alascon Bringing High Speed Internet To Juneau

Today AT&T and their subsidiary, Alascom announced that they were rolling out a new high speed broadband offering for residents of Juneau, Alaska.

The new service, called WiMax, will provide affordable high speed internet to a number of other neighborhoods in Juneau Alaska, including Downtown, Douglas, Lena Point and the Mendenhall Valley.

"AT&T Alascom is fully committed to deliver the benefits of broadband Internet service as widely as possible," said Mike Felix, president of AT&T Alascom. "Our deployment of WiMAX-based high speed Internet service in Juneau is the result of years of research into new-generation broadband technologies that are well-suited for deployment in challenging environments such as Alaska. Today, those efforts enable us to deliver a compelling new broadband choice for thousands of Alaskans, including many who have previously not had access to high speed Internet service."

Service rates start at $19.99 monthly and provide upstream and downstream connection rates of 1 MBPS, 5 Email addresses and 20MB of personal webspace. Subscribers will also be able to log in from more than one location, provided they are in the services range.

AT&T and Alascom plan on making this service available to more residents in the Juneau area in the near future and are looking to expand into more Alaskan communities in 2008.