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...again argue before APUC commissioners whether Fairbanks and Juneau should remain exempt from federal law requiring local telephone markets be open to competition. Fairbanks and Juneau are exempt because they are considered rural telephone exchanges...
...responsive. Carson said the controversy over new phone lines in Anchorage stems in part from the deregulation of the local telephone market in 1997. Two years ago, ACS bought the Anchorage Telephone Utility, as well as phone companies in Fairbanks...
...Alaska Communications Systems, the owner of PTI Communications. PTI is currently Juneau's only supplier in the local telephone market. The amount of CIRI's investment was not disclosed. ACS is Alaska's leading full-service provider of telecommunications...
...recent proposal. GCI has said in the past that it plans to start competing with PTI Communications in Juneau's local telephone market as soon as it can, estimated to be in about a year. The company expects to hire about 25 people, build a...
...last day the commission was in existence. GCI plans to start competing with PTI Communications in Juneau's local telephone market as soon as it can, according to David Morris, GCI spokesman. PTI is owned by Alaska Communication Systems...
...recent proposal. GCI has said in the past that it plans to start competing with PTI Communications in Juneau's local telephone market as soon as it can, estimated to be in about a year. The company expects to hire about 25 people, build a...
...are pitted in a competitive battle for local phone service. Deregulation has allowed GCI to enter into the local telephone market in Juneau, Fairbanks and Anchorage. Alaska regulations state that ACS must lease use of its local phone lines...
...phone wars" periodically waged at the Capitol between telecommunications rivals GCI and ACS. GCI has broken into local telephone markets previously monopolized by ACS, including Juneau's, due to RCA rulings that have been upheld in court. ACS...
...in the state and three-quarters of Alaska's local telephone market, according to Tom Jensen, a spokesman for PTI...GCI Communications has been trying to enter local telephone markets that will come under Alaska Communication System's...
...Ads and posters touting the benefits of competition have been circulated for months by GCI as it seeks access to local telephone markets. But the company is fighting the new attempt to allow such access for cable. GCI opposes Halford's amendment...