Alaska’s lack of roads and limited power grid, and its...
Alaska’s lack of roads and limited power grid, and its extensive reliance on satellite service, make application of national cost models to Alaska’s telecom service providers “inappropriate,” Alaskan representatives told FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Monday, an ex parte filing said…
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(http://xrl.us/boeyx5). The representatives included Gov. Sean Parnell’s D.C.-based staff, and the Alaska Telephone Association. The groups also told Pai that “regulatory uncertainty is hampering Alaska’s carriers’ ability to invest and borrow the funds needed to move towards universal broadband,” the filing said. Access to the Internet, although expensive in remote parts of Alaska, “provides much greater value than it may in other parts of the country,” the filing said.