ACS Disputes GCI Challenge, Urges FCC to Find 6,056 Locations Meet CAF II Commitment
Alaska Communications Services said the FCC should deem 6,056 locations eligible for Connect America Fund Phase II broadband-oriented subsidy support. ACS disputed what it said was a lone challenge from General Communications Inc. claiming to serve some locations. "GCI fails…
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to provide persuasive evidence that it serves any of the locations addressed in its filing, fails to document the locations it does serve, and fails to establish why having facilities 'near' the relevant locations should be viewed as adequate proof of service," said an ACS filing posted Monday in docket 10-90. ACS said GCI's failure to claim locations as served that it previously reported were served disqualifies those census blocks from consideration and raises doubt about its accuracy. "GCI also fails to establish that it is an unsubsidized competitor at any of the proposed locations. To the extent that it actually serves any of them, GCI may be presumed to do so as a subsidized competitor," ACS said. It noted the FCC required ACS to deploy qualifying broadband service to 31,571 unserved locations in census blocks deemed unserved, with up to 7,900 allowed in partially served, high-cost census blocks, if they survive challenge. GCI didn't comment.