GCI Seeks Stable, Predictable Public Funding
Stable FCC and other government subsidies are critical to sustaining Alaska’s General Communication Inc.'s investment in the state, General Counsel Tina Pidgeon said on C-SPAN’s The Communicators in a segment that was to have been televised Saturday. USF funding, including…
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high-cost, E-rate and rural healthcare programs, must be predictable for GCI to spend money upgrading and extending services, she said: Alaska takes rural issues to “a different level,” with rugged terrain and low-population communities spread apart by thousands of miles. GCI uses microwave transport and LTE over satellite to serve the more difficult areas with broadband and wireless services, she said. Alaska regulators are weighing revamp of state USF (see 1805300054).