Editing GCI Communication (section)

===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.)

GCI is currently deploying [[digital telephony|digital cable telephony]] based on [[PacketCable]] technology in [[Utqiaġvik, Alaska|Utqiaġvik]] as a replacement for the analog copper. In GCI's implementation, the connection between the GCI head end and the subscriber's [[Cable modem#Cable modems and VoIP|EMTA]] uses IP packets but is interconnected with GCI's more traditional circuit-switched infrastructure and backbone.<ref>''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 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061114175406/http://www.ncta.com/DocumentBinary.aspx?id=318|date=November 14, 2006}}.</ref>

GCI also provides legacy as well as Cisco [[VoIP]] telephony for many customers, including the state government.