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Rural Alaska faces slow, expensive internet. This cable project could help

A new fiber optic cable project is promising to bring faster speeds to parts of Alaska where internet is still slow and expensive.

NPR’s Nina Kravinsky reports from the Western Alaska town of Bethel.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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