Alaska Power and Telephone’s plans to install an 86-mile-long fiber optic submarine cable in the Upper Lynn Canal to boost Internet service are moving forward, and the company hopes to have the cable installed by October.
Bruce Messerschmidt, AP&T’s general manager for telecommunications operations, said the cable should give AP&T customers “more bang for their buck” when it comes to Internet service. Prices likely won’t go down, but the same money will buy faster…