Notice to customers regarding solar outages that may impact your services:
A solar outage occurs when the sun gets in direct line with the satellite and the dish on the ground, causing an override of the signal.
Solar outages will begin October 9th and end October 17th. They will occur every day between 11:23am and 12:09pm Alaska time; exact event times are different for each community based on their geographic location. The outages will last between four and 15 minutes. The longest outages will occur during the peak of solar interference, which will be October 12th and 14th.