On This Nearly Deserted Alaska Island, You Pay to Keep Hundreds of Empty Buildings Wired for Internet by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News Co-published with Anchorage Daily News

On This Nearly Deserted Alaska Island, You Pay to Keep Hundreds of Empty Buildings Wired for Internet U.S. phone customers pay more than $340,000 a year for an Anchorage company to keep homes and buildings on Alaska’s Adak Island wired for obsolete internet service. All but a few of them sit empty. by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News Co-published with Anchorage Daily News https://www.propublica.org/article/adak-island-alaska-internet-subsidy-fcc?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=river On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, sits an abandoned house on an abandoned Navy base. There is no furniture, and the wind blows through broken windows. The last people to live here moved away long ago. Yet a bright orange pipe with a black fiber-optic cable inside runs from the outer wall down into the surrounding soil.