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GCI Communication Corp. (GCI) is a telecommunications corporation (NASDAQ: GNCMA) operating in Alaska. Through its own facilities and agreements with other providers, GCI provides cable television service, Internet access, and wireline and cellular telephone service. Telecommunication involves the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. ...
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Official language(s) none Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Area Ranked 1st - Total 663,267 sq mi (1,717,855 km²) - Width 808 miles (1,300 km) - Length 1,479 miles (2,380 km) - % water 13. ...
Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house. ...
The term wireline usually refers to a cabling technology used by operators of oil and gas wells to lower equipment into the well for the purposes of a well intervention. ...
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Television GCI provides cable television service to approximately three-quarters of Alaska residents. [1] GCI has upgraded most of its network to support digital cable broadcasts and provides high-definition broadcasts in some of the state's largest cities. [2]. GCI leases an array of analog and digital cable boxes, including HD and DVR digital cable boxes, to its customers. High-definition television (HDTV) means broadcast of television signals with a higher resolution than traditional formats (NTSC, SECAM, PAL) allow. ...
Foxtel IQ, a digital video recorder and a satellite cable set-top box. ...
GCI also provides content to the state-operated Alaska Rural Communications Service satellite system, which in turn provides free over-the-air broadcasts of commercial and public television programs to 235 rural Alaskan communities. [3]
Internet GCI provides access to the Internet via multiple means. As of January 2007, GCI provides cable modem services in major cities in Alaska with download speeds up to 10 megabits per second. In the rural cities of Nome, Cordova, Bethel, and Barrow, GCI provides high-speed cable modem services but uses a satellite for the backhaul connection, as the cost to lay cable to these remote areas is prohibitively expensive. [4] In some rural communities where GCI does not have a cable TV infrastructure, it provides lower-bandwidth (56-512 kbit/s) wireless Internet access over a satellite backhaul. [5]
Through its own facilities and agreements with other providers, primarily Alaska Communications Systems, GCI provides data network and Internet connections via DSL, PRI leased lines (such as a T1), and other high-bandwidth business-class products. These services are aimed at the business market. [6] The state government is a major customer of GCI, using GCI's infrastructure to provide the backbone for the state's wide area network. Alaska Communications Systems is one of the two major corporations which provide communications services to Alaska. ...
DSL may refer to: Damn Small Linux Dark and Shattered Lands, a MUD based loosely on Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance books. ...
A wide area network or WAN is a computer network covering a broad geographical area. ...
GCI maintains local access numbers throughout the state for analog dial-up service.
GCI also owns Alaska United fiber optic cable system, which connects Anchorage and Fairbanks with Internet points of presence in Seattle and Portland. [7] GCI leases capacity on their system to other Internet providers in Alaska, including Clearwire wireless broadband. A point-of-presence (POP) is an artificial demarcation or interface point between communications entities. ...
Clearwire is a wireless broadband Internet service provider (ISP) headquartered in Kirkland, Washington. ...
Wireline Telephone GCI offers local telephone service in many Alaskan markets as well as intrastate and interstate long-distance. As the competitive local exchange carrier, GCI primarily contracts with the incumbent local exchange carrier, Alaska Communications Systems, to provide the local loop from GCI's switches to customers. (This practice is known as UNE-loop.) A Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC), in the United States, is a telecommunications provider company (sometimes called a carrier) that competes with other, already established carriers (generally the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC)). Local exchange carriers (LECs) are divided into incumbent (ILECs) and competitive (CLECs). ...
ILEC or Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier is a local telephone company that was in existence at the time of the breakup of AT&T, for example, the Baby Bells and GTE. They compete with upstart Competitive Local Exchange Carriers. ...
In telecommunications, the local loop is the wiring between the central office (telephone exchange in British English) and the customers premises demarcation point. ...
GCI is currently deploying digital cable telephony based on PacketCable technology in Anchorage as a replacement for the analog copper last mile and plans to expand the service to Fairbanks and Juneau [8]. In GCI's implementation, the connection between the GCI head end and the subscriber's EMTA uses IP packets but is interconnected with GCI's more traditional circuit-switched infrastructure and backbone. [1] Digital telephony is a technology used in the provision of digital telephone services and systems. ...
PacketCable™ is an organization started by CableLabs® in Colorado. ...
The last mile is the final leg of delivering connectivity from a communications provider to a customer. ...
A cable modem is a type of modem that provides access to a data signal sent over the cable television infrastructure. ...
GCI also provides legacy as well as Cisco VoIP telephony for many customers, including the state government. IP Telephony, also called Internet telephony, is the technology that makes it possible to have a telephone conversation over the Internet or a dedicated Internet Protocol (IP) network instead of dedicated voice transmission lines. ...
Wireless Telephone Through an agreement with Dobson Communications Systems, which provides TDMA and GSM cellular service under the Cellular One brand, GCI sells GSM cellular service under its own name. Dobson Cellular, aka Dobson Cellular Systems is a wireless telecommunications provider in several regions of the United States, including Alaska. ...
Cellular One is the trade name of the cellular service offered by Western Wireless. ...
See also Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house. ...
References - ^ Balancing Responsibilities and Rights: A Regulatory Model for Facilities-Based VoIP Competition, National Cable and Telecommunications Association, February 2004. Accessed via http://ncta.com/DocumentBinary.aspx?id=318.
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