GCI Seeks Further Guidance on Alaska Connect Fund Notice
Alaskan carrier GCI urged the FCC to provide more guidance to allow providers to comment on the Alaska Connect Fund eligible-areas map and performance plan template (see 2511190039). Comments were due Thursday in docket 23-328. The FCC's public notice “raises critical questions that necessitate corrections and further clarifications regarding key parameters before providers can fully offer input.”
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The carrier asked the Wireless Bureau and the Office of Economics and Analytics to “solicit questions from interested parties and issue written guidance to address these open issues.” Given the outstanding questions and the impact of the federal government shutdown, it’s “not possible for providers to offer definitive comment on all aspects of the Public Notice -- particularly regarding the scope of untestable hexes.”