Local Internet service is not as fast or as affordable in the community of Haines as it could be, despite claims to the contrary reported in your recent article quoting an Alaska Power & Telephone representative.
For $50 per month within the community of Haines, one gets a mere 256K internet speed of service. Yet if one lives outside the AP&T area locally, Starband satellite Internet service offers 1.5 megabytes of service to folks for…