The FCC should reject a proposal by Alaska’s General Communicatio...
The FCC should reject a proposal by Alaska’s General Communications Inc. (GCI) for a Tribal and Native Alaskan carve-out from any cap on high cost Universal Service Fund support for competitive eligible telecommunications carriers (CETCs), the Rural Telecommunications Group…
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said. “The GCI carve-out exempts the entire state of Alaska from any CETC cap since the total state is considered Tribal land,” RTG said: “Even urban Anchorage would be covered by the exemption… GCI’s supposedly ‘limited, competitively neutral exclusion’ is anything but… and would harm small, rural carriers that provide universal service in some of the most high cost areas of the Nation, including Alaska.”