Alaska Telephone Plans to Drop Some Wireline Offerings

Alaska Telephone Co. notified the FCC that it plans to drop its wireline broadband internet access service (WBIAS) offerings, including consumer broadband-only loop service, effective July 1. “Upon discontinuance of the tariffed offerings, the Company will provide WBIAS on a permissive detariffed basis,” said a filing Friday in docket 02-33.