During the community Q&A meeting last week in Petersburg, Megan Webb, GCI's senior director of corporate communications, points out the expanded coverage area that will be created by the GCI cell tower soon to be installed at 1111 S. Nordic Drive.
For the better part of a year wireless communication infrastructure has been a topic of controversy and community engagement in Petersburg. The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska has been pursuing three tower locations in Petersburg through its broadband initiative, Tidal Network, as part of a federally funded broadband expansion effort - a project that has drawn sustained opposition from a contingent of residents raising concerns about radio frequency emissions, tower placement near homes and schools, and the pace of development. That community opposition helped...
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