December 12, 2014
A change is about to happen in the communication section at the beginning of 2015, as Alaska Communication will stop functioning. The postpaid and prepaid wireless and broadband carrier from the biggest state of the US will disappear but its equipment and infrastructure will be sold to General Communication Inc. A company that will pay for this somewhere around 300 million dollars for a transaction that, almost sure, will be over by the end of the winter.
Nearly 110.000 customers of the operator shouldn’t be worried, according to the officials of the company, as their services won’t be affected in anyway by the change that it is about to happen. In fact, all the contracts and their prices will not change at this time being kept as it happened by now until the moment of the change when all will may depend on General Communication Inc. because the board of Alaska Communication won’t have any kind of power of decision.
Since the summer of last year, Alaska Communications and General Communication Inc. have been jointly operating the Alaska Wireless Network (AWN) in order to try and compete with the other network carriers encroaching on the biggest state of U.S.A. Alaska Communications will continue to offer other services such as broadband and the officials stated that the money obtained from the deal that it is about to finalize will go towards paying off debt and investing in broadband internet options to satisfy their customers’ needs.