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Item Circulating on GCI Request for Review of Mapping Waiver

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai circulated an item on the Connect America Fund Alaska Plan last week, the agency posted Friday. Commissioners are expected to vote on an order about an April 1 application for review by GCI Communications of an…

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FCC waiver denial order in broadband network mapping reporting deemed insufficient (see 1904170058), agency officials told us. GCI argued in the application "no valid purpose has ever been presented for a location accuracy standard as strict as 7.6 meters." The Alaska Plan directs USF dollars for broadband networks.