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GCI’s Commitment to Quality Healthcare Throughout Alaska

History of Rural Commitment

» 1995: Began the first DAMA deployments » 1998: Deployed the first Alaska telehealth network in the federal program » 2003: Spent $25m for a 125 village rollout of first generation wireless Internet service » 2006: Committed $40m to Rural Wireless rollout for cell/data in all Alaska villages » 2006-2009: Committed $60m for Kodiak, South East and Fairbanks Alaska fiber routes » 2010: Committed funding and begin building TERRA Project

ConnectMD Medical Network

» The largest medical network in the Pacific Northwest: Connect MD » A collaborative environment of over 200 clinics, hospitals, and medical

• rganizations throughout Alaska and the Pacific Northwest

ConnectMD Members

• Alaska Island Community Center
• Alaska Psychiatric Institute
• Alaska Regional Medical Center
• Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation
• Cascade Medical Center
• Central Washington Hospital
• Fairbanks Memorial Hospital
• Ferry County Memorial Hospital
• Harborview Radiology
• Harrison Memorial Hospital
• Ketchikan General Hospital
• Kodiak Island Community Health Center
• Lake Chelan Community Hospital
• Maniilaq Health Center
• Mid-Valley Hospital
• North Slope Borough Health and Social Services
• North Valley Hospital
• Norton Sound Health Corporation
• Okanagan Douglas County Hospital
• Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital
• Seattle Children’s Hospital
• Swedish Medical Center
• University of Washington Medicine Radiology
• Virginia Mason Medical Center
• Wenatchee Valley Medical Center
• Yukon Flats Health Center
• Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation

TERRA

» The TERRA Vision: Terrestrial for Every Region of Rural Alaska » What is TERRA?

• Hybrid fiber optic and microwave network
• Removes limitations of satellite service
• Will provide symmetrical broadband service

» Why TERRA?

• Participation in the modern economy requires broadband connectivity
• Rural users have seen increases in available services, but are not at parity with

urban users

• Modern applications are challenged by the latency and capacity constraints of

satellite

TERRA

• GCI applied to USDA-RUS for an award to build TERRA-SW
• First round attracted 2,200 applicants requesting over $28B
• GCI received notification of an $88M award on Jan. 25:

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About GCI’s Funded Project

• Will provide terrestrial connectivity to 65 villages in the

Bristol Bay and Yukon-Kuskokwim regions

• Interconnects with existing DeltaNet network
• Hybrid fiber/microwave network
• 14 new microwave towers (4 remote/mountaintop)
• 7 new cable landing stations
• 9 new fiber segments (subsea, lakebed and buried)
• GCI will offer a well-provisioned wireless residential Internet

service in the region at urban-equivalent rates

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• Map

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Schedule

Grant requires three years to completion

– Clock starts at closing of award - anticipated late Summer 2010

• 2009: Initial permitting, early design
• 2010: Permitting; site survey; site acquisition; upgrade of existing

microwave sites; equipment and fiber manufacturing

• 2011: Construction of microwave sites, cable landing stations and

majority of fiber network

• 2012: Construction of remaining microwave sites and remaining fiber

segment

• 2013: Project completion

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Next job: Norton Sound and Northwest Arctic

• GCI submitted second round application to USDA-RUS

March 29, 2010

• Application builds terrestrial network to most Norton Sound

and Northwest Arctic communities

• GCI requested

– Grant: $108,213,247.00 – Loan: $46,377,107.00

• Project would “close the ring” with route east to the pipeline

fiber

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Thank you. Krag Johnsen Director, Rural Broadband Development kjohnsen@gci.com

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