said by bmialone 
:I've been told "Its Alaska" as an excuse for the high pricing of everything, and lousy service for just about everything. One would think Alaskans were not living in the 21st century, given even backwater places in third world countries are getting better internet speeds and service, as well as a myriad other services the rest of the country manages to get better for less money. Alaskans are paying more for less - not more for the same, but more for less, for Everything. Low standards.
We had GCI but were really unhappy with how slow our supposed high speeds were, and disgusted by the price gouging, including extra charging for unlimited. In two other states, we were never charged like that. Plus GCI charges more for cable television, and provides fewer included without an extra charge cable boxes than did our past cable companies.
When we bought a home and moved, we went to Clearwire as our ISP, but its speeds are even worse.
It took GCI over a month just to get a working dial tone for our landline telephone line! In addition to their other techs, one very unprofessional tech was here twice (his buddies showed up just to hang around my house while he worked, twice!). The company is ridiculous about installing only so many phone and cable lines per appointment and refusing to install cable outlets on interior walls (Never ran into either of those things in other states!). Then the company pressured us, harassed us with phone calls, and even lied about why we Had to switch to their digital phone service (we didn't).
Can't stand GCI but may go back to them for internet in the end because Clearwire is slower than our old dial-up 15 years ago.
Alaska is an excuse for higher prices. Only a child could think otherwise. You truly show your ignorance here. You obviously know nothing about telecommunications. I've only been in Alaska for 3 years and I am totally impressed at what GCI has done with so little. This isn't the lower 48, I don't know how GCI can provide what they can without charging more for it. They have they own undersea fiber optic cables that carry everything down to Seattle and then they have to pay other people to take if from there. That is a hell of a different business model than say Comcast service in San jose. People like you make me sick.
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