Does this glacier have wifi? That kind of question is serious business for Tina Pidgeon, who spoke to us on the sidelines of the Wilson Center-Arctic Circle Forum. A top executive at GCI, one of Alaska’s leading telecommunications companies, she described the challenges of achieving connectivity in an unforgiving environment and the growing importance of doing so as the Arctic hotspot of global attention.
Does this glacier have wifi? That kind of question is serious business for Tina Pidgeon, who spoke to us on the sidelines of the Wilson Center-Arctic Circle Forum. A top executive at GCI, one of Alaska’s leading telecommunications companies, she described the challenges of achieving connectivity in an unforgiving environment and the growing importance of doing so as the Arctic hotspot of global attention.
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