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Jr. Police Academy cancelled due to staffing shortages

...dispatch unit has been chronically understaffed for about the past 10 years. The Communication Center provides communication services for the police and fire departments as well as other city, state and federal agencies. It has to be staffed 24...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-06-24/jr-police-academy-cancelled-due-staffin
Local
SE rural phone service prepared for FCC changes

...U.S. Communications Act of 1934 called for "rapid, efficient, nationwide, and worldwide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges."U.S. lawmakers reworked Communications Act in 1996, creating...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-07-10/se-rural-phone-service-prepared-fcc-cha
Local
Sealaska's final selection

...original selection areas. The situation is new, and so too should be the solution. ? Metcalfe has provided communication services for Alaska Native organizations throughout Southeast since 1980, including a series of shareholder newsletters...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-11-30/sealaskas-final-selection
Opinion
The death of snail mail in an electronic world

...general authority to reorganize staff and refine services.For the long term, Congress must decide what essential communication services the Postal Service can and should continue to provide and then give it the ability make tough, sensible business...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-09-14/death-snail-mail-electronic-world
Opinion
Glacier bear hit by vehicle disappears

...Barten said the report he got of a glacier bear sighting Friday came from OnStar, the General Motors emergency communications service. A dispatcher told him a car hit a glacier bear on Glacier Highway at the Peterson Creek bridge, about 25 miles...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/061206/loc_20060612025.shtml
News
Grant promotes career counseling in villages

...Dates to air the shows statewide - possibly on the Alaska One public television network and the Alaska Rural Communications Service - haven't been set, said Jim Mahan, station manager at KTOO-TV. The shows will examine how schools prepare...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/061404/sta_grant.shtml
News
ACS misses deadlines in $92 million state contract for network overhaul

...services all can be delivered simultaneously. The agreement establishes deadlines for providing each specific communications service and sets minimum standards for their quality. When state officials awarded the contract in late 2001, they...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/082203/sta_acs.shtml
News
Business Digest

...off on the important issues at A teleconference has been set for Nov. 15 for people to join a hearing on a MCI Communications Services plan to raise its prepaid calling card rates to 35 cents per minute. The rate increase was initially scheduled...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/110906/loc_20061109003.shtml
News
MCI cancels plans for rate increase

A proposed MCI Communications Services rate hike has been withdrawn, according to state officials. Sound off on the important issues at The proposal, which would have...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/111406/loc_20061114008.shtml
News
Northwest Digest

...city's communication assets, the condition of the plant, the services provided, the revenues attributable to communications services, etc.," Eisenberg's letter said. "Based on the information obtained, ACS will evaluate the value of...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/112504/sta_20041125007.shtml
News

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