Starlink units are a precious commodity. But people are talking, sharing stories and “doing what they used to do without the internet.”
Kari Cravens, of Ashmo’s food truck in Sitka, takes cash from Jacil Lee, a cruise ship passenger stopping in town last week. Many business owners in Sitka are unable to accept credit and debit cards amid an outage in most phone and internet communications. Many shops and restaurants are operating on a cash-only basis. Contact with the outside world comes mostly through satellites.
Rumors have proliferated about the cause of the break, which, according to GCI, was somewhere between Sitka and Angoon, an Indigenous village to the northeast, toward Juneau. Sitkans congregate outside the town library to tap into free Starlink-based internet. While some businesses and residents already had Starlink before the outage, others went to great lengths to acquire them afterward.
Grenier’s home, and driveway, are now hotspots for friends and family in need of cell and internet service. There are long lines for cash at the bank, Himschoot added. She’s also worried about constituents who may miss deadlines to apply for or renew state benefits and services. And, she added: How do elders connect to the van service to get to health care?
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