Haines and Skagway residents may soon have access to faster internet service now that Alaska Power and Telephone is laying 86 miles of undersea fiber-optic cable in the Upper Lynn Canal this week.
Tom Ervin, vice president of AP&T Telecom Operations and Engineering, said the cables will increase bandwidth for Haines and Skagway, meaning more information will be able to run through the cables in the same amount of time, increasing internet speeds. “It augments…