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Complaint Review: GCI - Nationwide

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  • Reported By: stink — Dillingham Alaska USA
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GCI Monopoly, Scam, Blackmail, Coercion Dillingham, Alaska Nationwide

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GCI and the local provider are the only options for internet service here in the Bristol Bay area.  Their services already have the  highest cost in the nation, and they are even higher in Rural Alaska.  Most of these small communities are extremely dependant on the internet for communication and business purposes, yet they have no alternative to paying the insanely high costs and subjecting themselves to ridiculous data caps.  These same companies provide much better service only miles away.  The company knows they can get away with it,  so they do.  The Federal minimum is going up soon, so we know the plan in the ground is capable of handling much higher speeds than they will provide.  We all got a taste of that when a local politician's place crashed an suddenly every carrier worked and the throughput was actually normal speed for once.

The current federal minimum is somewhere around 4mb\s, so they only give us 6 mb\s with a 40gb data cap [enough to watch a couple movies and check your email once a day] for over &180/mo!! A rate much higher that what other communities pay for a 50mb\s-1gb/s connection with a 300gb data cap and no overages.

To make it worse,  the only local competition has to lease their services from the same company.  Rather than try to bring some healthy competition and competitive rates, they just charge exactly the same prices.  Both companies are price fixing together.  In a community so subsidized by the Government and the local Native Corporations; you think that one of the two would direct a little bit of that money towards what is fast becoming [if it isn't already] a basic need. 

We have a serious deficiency out here that can create huge hassles; greater expense and even cost lives.  A deficiency that could be solved with very little effort.  One would think this kind of monopoly was illegal in some way.  It is bad enough the airlines, the shipping companies, and every other business in the area has a stranglehold on this community. 

A 50mb\s data connection with a few hundred gigs of data isn't asking much for the $180 we are forced to pay for the trickle we get, and we know the capability is already here as the raising federal minimum looms only a few years away.

I get it. The point of a business is to make a profit, and that is totally fine, but if these local companies do not start trying to put a little bit back into their own communities...at this rate, our town will just continue shrinking and there won't be much of a community left.  These towns are getting smaller and smaller as it is.  Lets at least get some basic services in here at an affordable price and the rest of the infrastructure  will pick up on its own.

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