Alaska Communications, GCI Continue Back-and-Forth on Alaska Plan
The Alaska Plan will give the state a stable telecom investment environment, General Communications (GCI) said in a Tuesday filing in FCC docket No. 10-90. The plan would allow the state to have enforceable deployment commitments and improved targeting of…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
support to unserved and underserved areas, the filing said. The Alaska Plan would leverage the same middle-mile infrastructure to connect remote locations to urban centers and the lower 48 states, the filing said. Alaska Communications also filed an ex parte notice in the same docket, urging the FCC to take action on the pending Connect America Fund Phase II proposal it submitted. The FCC should also allocate support for continuing voice service in extremely high-cost census blocks in Alaska, and look at further universal service overhaul in the state, Alaska Communications said.