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GCI Concerned About Proposed Alaska Drive Test Rules

GCI raised concerns in comments on proposed drive test parameters and a model for the tests for some carriers participating in the Alaska Plan. Comments were due Thursday in docket 16-271. “Many of the areas where GCI and other providers…

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committed to improve mobile wireless services are extremely remote,” said a filing posted Friday: “The Proposal would likely require GCI to test a substantial number of grid cells that are very sparsely populated (if actually populated at all), roadless, miles from the nearest road, or all three. The efforts required for these tests will validate a very small percentage of [those] reflected in the commitments but require substantial effort.”