PITTSBURGH, Penn.—The state of Alaska accounts for about one-fifth of the total geographic area of the U.S. but just 0.2% of the U.S. population, or around 724,000 residents.
Alaskan carrier GCI started as a long-distance carrier in the early 1980s, and through acquisitions of...
Rural carriers are weighing the "when" and "how" of the transition to 5G, both in terms of technical issues and business cases. During a carrier panel at the Competitive Carriers annual convention this week, representatives from US Cellular, Alaska's GCI and Wisconsin's Cellcom discussed...
Providing mobile and broadband services in rural America "is not cookie cutter"
PHOENIX–In 20 months unlike any others that the telecom industry has dealt with in modern times, small carriers have had to navigate the uncharted waters of a pandemic on a fraction of the...
Alaskan network operator GCI has signed a new, $150 million deal with Intelsat to expand GCI's available capacity for satellite-based services. GCI has offered satellite service for nearly three decades, and the telco says that the deal continues its access to both C-band and...
Two Liberty companies are being rolled into one, bringing together the parent company of Alaskan telecom company GCI and Liberty Broadband, which holds a 25% stake in cable provider Charter Communications.
The stock-for-stock transaction will combine the two companies and values GCI Liberty at $8.7...
T-Mobile is the first operator to have a 5G network in all 50 U.S. states
Alaskan operator GCI turned up its first 5G network in April, making good on a 2019 promise to launch 5G service in the spring of 2020. Now, GCI is working...
Alaskan operator GCI turned up its first 5G network sites on Friday, which the company said makes it the northernmost 5G wireless carrier in the U.S. and the first operator in Alaska to offer 5G.
GCI made good on a 2019 promise to launch 5G...
Alaska’s largest telecommunications operator, GCI, has selected Ericsson for the deployment of 5G infrastructure, the vendor said in a release.
Ericsson said that the deployment of 5G technology will accelerate applications for the oil, gas, mining and healthcare industries across Alaska.
GCI said it expects to...
GCI introduces CloudFlex SD-WAN
Telecommunications and technology company General Communications Inc. (GCI) deployed its CloudFlex Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) yesterday, which moves the management of business networks to the cloud.
GCI is Alaska’s largest telephone and wireless provider with around 108,000 cable subscribers across the...
Alaska’s GCI joins Sprint, T-Mobile and others paying a fine to the FCC tied to 911 service outages
The Federal Communications Commission continues to ding telecom operators for 911 service issues, with the latest involving Alaska-based carrier General Communications.
The FCC levied a $2.4 million fine...
Regional telecom operator Ntelos expanded the reach of its LTE network to more than 81,000 potential wireless customers in portions of Roanoke, Va., and Charleston, W.Va. The expansion included enabling LTE services on 26 cell sites.
The service expansion is part of Ntelos’ recently announced...
