Alaska Plan Needs To Move Forward, GCI Tells FCC
The Alaska Plan as a whole, including the rate-of-return and competitive eligible telecommunications carriers portions, needs to move forward, General Communication Inc. (GCI) said in an ex parte notice posted Tuesday by the FCC Wireline Bureau in docket 10-90. The…
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plan will provide a stable environment to continue to improve broadband deployment in the state, GCI said. But GCI said Alaska Communications' proposal is "unrealistic, lacked notice as it applied across all forms of universal service support beyond the high cost support being considered in these dockets and suffered from potential substantive legal defects," the filing said. Alaska Communications on Thursday filed an ex parte report with an attached proposal for closing the middle mile gap in Alaska. The proposal said only by addressing the middle mile gap can the FCC fulfill its statutory duty to ensure that all Americans have access to "reasonably comparable, affordable, advanced broadband capability."