Anchorage Daily News

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U.S. phone customers pay $340,000 a year to wire empty houses on Adak, investigative report shows

Sofia Stuart-Rasi

Most of the buildings in Adak sit empty. But more than 300 of them are wired for internet, a cost U.S. phone customers are paying. A new investigation from the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica found the cost comes to more than $340,000 a year for a service no one on the island was using.