GCI Raises Concerns on Rural Healthcare Program Funding
Representatives of Alaska’s General Communication Inc. asked the FCC to expedite the flow of funding coming through the USF Rural Healthcare Program. “We urged rapid completion of the Funding Year 2017 commitments process, as we are already ten months through…
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that year,” GCI said in a filing in docket 02-60. “The delay in completing the commitments and disbursement process is threatening to disrupt GCI’s ability to undertake key network improvements to improve wireless and wireline broadband in Alaska during the coming construction season.” GCI said representatives met with staff from the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau and the Office of Native Affairs and Policy.