Alaskans Connecting Alaskans To The World - Microcom Featured On Alaska Means Business

Microcom, a family-operated and Alaskan-owned satellite communications company, is marking 41 years of pioneering connectivity across the Last Frontier. Founded in 1984, the company played a pivotal role in bringing live television to Alaska for the first time, ending the era of week-long tape delays, and later helped dozens of rural communities build their own cable systems. From constructing the state’s first commercial Ku-band gateway to building the Alyeska Pipeline’s satellite network in 1988, Microcom has repeatedly turned “impossible” projects into reality, earning a reputation for innovation and deep commitment to Alaska’s remote villages, urban centers and resilient culture.

Today, as the first Starlink retailer in North America, Microcom continues its mission by delivering high-speed internet to thousands of rural Alaskan homes, schools, cabins, and boats. With technicians routinely flying into the state’s most isolated communities and a local Anchorage customer-service center that stocks every part for same- or next-day replacement, the company provides the hands-on support that larger telecom giants often cannot. Family-operated and fiercely Alaskan-owned, Microcom remains dedicated to keeping families connected, enabling telehealth and remote learning, and proving that a small Alaska business can still out-serve and out-hustle the biggest players while staying true to its home state.

Learn more about Microcom at https://www.microcom.tv.

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