Articles from Alaska Power & Telephone Company

Alaska Power & Telephone Company is excited to share that it has been selected by the Alaska Broadband Office to receive four grants totaling $4.6 million to help fund fiber to the home buildout projects in its rural service territories. AP&T will be providing $1.2m in matching funds. Initial construction is scheduled to commence later in 2026 pending environmental approvals.

Alaska Power & Telephone Company (AP&T) announced today that Ryan Wopschall has been appointed President and member of the Board of Directors of Sealink Networks, Inc. (SNI), a majority-owned subsidiary co-founded by AP&T and Wopschall in 2024. Sealink Networks was established to expand digital infrastructure across North America, focusing on subsea fiber optic cable landing site infrastructure and dark fiber services. SNI is well along in completing a capital raise and the acquisition of permits for SNI’s first diverse cable landing site in Westport, WA. Wopschall will lead the company in the construction of this unique infrastructure and its next phase of growth. As part of this appointment, Sealink has also acquired Wopschall Consulting, LLC, bringing its specialized advisory services into the SNI portfolio.

Alaska Power & Telephone Company (AP&T), an employee-owned, community-minded utility providing vital services to Alaska communities since 1957, announced it will own a majority interest in SEALink Networks, Inc. (SNI). SNI is currently developing a cable landing station for subsea cables in Westport, Washington. These cables, also known as submarine cables, are fiber optic cables laid on the ocean floor and used to transmit data between continents or across large bodies of water, including providing connectivity for Alaska to the lower 48 states.

Alaska Power & Telephone Company proudly announces completion of the “SEALink South” submarine fiber optic cable project, the latest segment in its growing southeast Alaska broadband network. The AP&T team completed the installation one year ahead of schedule. SEALink South includes a submarine cable system interconnecting Ketchikan with the communities of Hollis and Coffman Cove, beachfront cable landing sites, various terrestrial facilities, and associated transport equipment. The new project further expands connectivity in Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago region, enhancing resilience through diverse routing options and a fiber “ring" around Prince of Wales Island. SEALink South is funded via a $29.3m USDA ReConnect grant, plus additional matching funds supplied by AP&T. Funds are also being used to construct fiber to the home in communities across Prince of Wales Island, with new buildouts scheduled to occur in the communities of Klawock (2024-2025), Hollis (2025), and Craig (2026).

Alaska Power & Telephone Company (AP&T) is proud to announce that it has been selected as “Business of the Year” by Southeast Conference, the federally-designated Economic Development District for the southeast Alaska region. The award recognizes “extraordinary leadership and investment in innovative projects in Southeast Alaska,” and follows a busy decade of clean energy and broadband initiatives undertaken in numerous communities throughout the region.

Alaska Power & Telephone Company (AP&T) is pleased to share that it has uplisted its stock from the Pink Limited Information tier to Pink Current Information tier. AP&T’s stock trades under the symbol APTL.

Alaska Power & Telephone Company (AP&T) is excited to announce that Spruce Root – a southeast Alaska non-profit and Community Development Financial Institution – was selected to receive a $2.5m US DOE grant for a heat pump deployment project for Prince of Wales Island. The project, titled “Decarbonizing the Tongass with Tribally Owned Heat Pumps,” will be a multi-year initiative to add 240 air source heat pumps to residential homes in Prince of Wales Island communities. The program will also include a workforce development component, training local Alaska technicians to maintain heat pumps and perform new installations on a sustainable basis into the future.

Alaska Power & Telephone Company (AP&T) is pleased to announce its decision to move its corporate headquarters to Ketchikan, Alaska. The company made the determination after considering numerous potential locations across the State of Alaska.

The Board of Directors of Alaska Power & Telephone announced that William D. Marks will become President & CEO effective February 1, upon the successful completion of their succession plan to replace Michael Garrett, who previously announced his planned retirement after more than 34 years with the Company.

On October 31st, 2022, Alaska Power & Telephone subsidiary AP&T Wireless (AP&T) successfully completed installation of the SEALink submarine fiber optic cable system, providing Prince of Wales Island with its first ever fiber optic link to continental North America, and the world. The submarine cable is a core component of a regional fiber deployment project funded via a $21.5m grant from the USDA Rural Utilities Service ReConnect program, and approximately $7m in private investment supplied by AP&T. Beginning in 2023, AP&T will install fiber and turn up service to homes in the Prince of Wales communities of Coffman Cove and Kasaan.

Alaska Telephone Company (ATC), a subsidiary of Alaska Power & Telephone Company (AP&T), has been selected by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to receive a $33,017,636 grant award from USDA Rural Utility Service’s ReConnect grant program to expand fiber optic connectivity in rural southeast Alaska. Alaska Telephone Company will invest $11,005,879 in matching funds. The “Klukwan-Skagway Fiber” project will develop fiber optic networks capable of 100 Mbps symmetrical service and higher for in the Alaska Native community of Klukwan, rural areas near Haines, and underserved areas of Skagway. This joint investment by ATC and USDA will bring new, highly affordable, technology-driven opportunities to families and businesses throughout the region.

Alaska Power & Telephone Company (OTC: APTL) (“AP&T”) is pleased to share that its subsidiary APT Wireless has been selected by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to receive a $29,344,717 grant award from USDA Rural Utility Service’s ReConnect grant program, to expand fiber optic connectivity in communities on Prince of Wales Island. AP&T will invest $9,781,573 in matching private funds. The project, called “SEALink South,” will involve developing fiber optic networks capable of 100 Mbps symmetrical service and higher to approximately 550 premises in the remote, rural communities of Craig, Klawock, and Hollis, helping to enhance telecommunication resiliency and redundancy for residents throughout the Tongass National Forest region.

Alaska Power & Telephone Company (AP&T) is pleased to announce completion of the Gustavus intertie – a federally-funded project linking the National Park Service’s facilities in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve to clean, renewable energy available from the Falls Creek hydropower project near the community of Gustavus, Alaska. Prior to the intertie, the National Park Service’s only option for electrical power was to self-generate energy at high cost using off-grid diesel generators.

AP&T Wireless (APTW), a subsidiary of Alaska Power & Telephone, has initiated a marine route survey for the SEALink submarine fiber optic cable project. TerraSond – an Alaska-based company with an Alaskan crew – will be using a 105’ vessel outfitted with advanced geophysical and hydrographic survey equipment to study the seafloor in advance of developing a final submarine cable route and design. The vessel, named the Qualifier 105, will spend approximately 20 days surveying seafloor areas between Coffman Cove and south Mitkoff Island, and Petersburg and Juneau. APTW will use data resulting from the survey, expected in August 2021, to select a submarine cable route that minimizes impacts and conflicts, and avoids features that could pose future risks to the cable.