re: #31 Cheechako

As far as I know, AT&T is the only company to be offering WiMax service in Alaska. The major phone company, Alaska Communication Systems (ACS) has some kind of arrangement with AT&T for long distance in Alaska but it will not include the WiMax service. For WiMax you have to sign up for AT&T local and long distance to get the cheep WiMax rate. Overall, the total cost for local, long distance, and a high speed internet connection are very comparable. Within a few bucks depending on how many minutes of long distance service (both in-state and out of state) you wanted.

I’d be leery of AT&T they pulled out of Alaska once before, my ex-wife worked for them in Anchorage for about 18 months when they set up a wireless highspeed (local dish) internet service as a test market back around 1999-2000. They oversold the capacity of the system without adding to the infrastructure and then when people started complaining and dropping the service they canned the whole thing.