Alaska Power & Telephone plans to offer new internet packages to Haines in early 2017 because of increased speeds and capacity with the underwater fiber-optic cable in Lynn Canal.
The 86-mile cable connects Haines, Skagway and Juneau.
Right now, AP&T’s lowest level broadband internet package can upload and download 768 kilobits per second. The second-lowest level of current service is one megabit per second for upload and download speed.
The new lowest service level…