ACS OF ALASKA, INC. v. RCA

No. S-10466.

81 P.3d 292 (2003)

ACS OF ALASKA, INC., ACS of The Northland, Inc., and ACS of Fairbanks, Inc., Appellants, v. REGULATORY COMMISSION OF ALASKA, and GCI Communication Corp., d/b/a General Communication, Inc., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

December 12, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Lynn Erwin, Alaska Communications Systems, Anchorage, and Elizabeth H. Ross, Birch, Horton, Bittner & Cherot, Washington, D.C., for Appellants.

Ron Zobel, Assistant Attorney General, Anchorage, and Bruce M. Botelho, Attorney General, Juneau, for Appellee Regulatory Commission of Alaska.

Martin M. Weinstein, General Communication, Inc., Anchorage, for Appellee GCI.

Before: FABE, Chief Justice, MATTHEWS, EASTAUGH, and BRYNER, Justices.


OPINION

FABE, Chief Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case arises under the local telephone competition provisions of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996. GCI petitioned the Regulatory Commission of Alaska (RCA) to terminate the rural exemptions of three Alaska Communication Systems (ACS) subsidiaries so that GCI could compete with these companies in rural Alaska. The RCA terminated ACS's rural exemptions, and ACS appeals that decision...

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