The Alaska Rural Coalition’s assertion that the USF/intercarrier compensation order...
The Alaska Rural Coalition’s assertion that the USF/intercarrier compensation order treats remote Alaska competitive eligible telecom carriers more favorably than remote Alaska ILECs “is pure rubbish,” General Communication said Monday in a letter to the FCC (http://xrl.us/bm4yr9). “ARC simply does…
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not want to compete -- and wants to be paid USF support for not doing so,” GCI said. ARC had requested reconsideration of the order’s “unintended consequence” of “disparate high cost support and regulation” between direct competitors. “The two year delay afforded all CETCs provides a competitive advantage to GCI in the local market while at the same time GCI can and will price its local telephone service as cheaply as necessary to capture customers and the associated high cost support,” ARC said in a letter Thursday (http://xrl.us/bm4ys4).