GCI Offers Updated Model for 5G Alaska Plan

GCI Communications filed a redacted letter at the FCC on its pursuit of a plan to pay for 5G deployment in Alaska (see 2407230013). GCI and the Brattle Group are developing a model that estimates the incremental cost of providing mobile broadband service to Alaska residents. “The results of the updated model continue to confirm that deploying 5G to all Broadband Serviceable Locations in Alaska at 35/3 Mbps (average) and 7/1 Mbps (edge) by the end of the Alaska Connect Fund term would require substantially more universal service support,” said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 23-238.