Editing GCI Communication (section)

===Wireless telephone===
Through an agreement with [[Dobson Cellular|Dobson Communications Systems]], which provided [[Digital AMPS|TDMA]] and [[GSM]] cellular service under the [[Cellular One]] brand, GCI formerly sold GSM cellular service [[MVNO|under its own name]] while providing Dobson with the back-end network infrastructure. [[AT&T Corporation|AT&T]]'s purchase of Dobson, however, resulted in an agreement on December 3, 2007, that released Dobson, now under the [[AT&T Wireless]] brand, from its contract to use GCI for its back-end network on July 1, 2008; AT&T Wireless now uses existing AT&T Alascom networks. GCI will continue to contract with AT&T Wireless for the use and resale of its products and services through June 30, 2012, but will also invest $100&nbsp;million in its own network. It also plans to spend approximately $10&nbsp;million to complete its acquisition of the remaining 20% of [[Alaska DigiTel]], a competing CDMA-based cellular carrier.<ref>Anchorage Daily News: [http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/262518.html GCI will pump $100 million into its network]{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}. Published January 12, 2008.</ref> On December 4, 2014, GCI agreed to purchase the wireless assets of [[Alaska Communications]] for $300&nbsp;million. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gci.com/news-release/gci-to-purchase-wireless-subscriber-base-from-alaska-communications|title=GCI To Purchase Wireless Subscriber Base From Alaska Communications |date=December 4, 2014 |access-date=December 5, 2014}}</ref>

====Radio frequency spectrum chart====
{{anchor|frequency|spectrum|Hz|MHz|freq|bands|LTE bands}}

The following chart describes radio frequency spectrum bands accessible by the company's customers.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Frequency Band
!Band number
!Protocol
!Generation
!Status
!Notes
|-
|'''1.9'''&nbsp;GHz&nbsp;PCS
|2
| rowspan="2" |GSM/GPRS/EDGE
| rowspan="2" |2G
| rowspan="4" |Active/Refarming to LTE
| rowspan="12" | <ref>{{cite web|title=Spectrum Omega|url=https://specmap.sequence-omega.net/}}</ref>
|-
|'''850'''&nbsp;MHz CLR
|5
|-
|'''1.9'''&nbsp;GHz&nbsp;PCS
|[[UMTS frequency bands|2]]
| rowspan="2" |UMTS/HSPA+
| rowspan="2" |3G
|-
|'''850'''&nbsp;MHz CLR
|[[UMTS frequency bands|5]]
|-
|'''700'''&nbsp;MHz Lower SMH A Block
|[[LTE frequency bands|12]]
| rowspan="4" | LTE/LTE-A
| rowspan="4" | 4G
| rowspan="5" | Active
|-
|'''850'''&nbsp;MHz CLR
|[[LTE frequency bands|5/26]]
|-
|'''1.9'''&nbsp;GHz&nbsp;PCS
|[[LTE frequency bands|2/25]]
|-
|'''1.7/2.1'''&nbsp;GHz&nbsp;AWS
|[[LTE frequency bands|4/66]]
|-
|'''600'''&nbsp;MHz [[Digital dividend after digital television transition|DD]]
|[[5G NR frequency bands|n71]]
| rowspan="4" | NR
| rowspan="4" | 5G
|-
|'''24''' GHz K-band
|[[5G NR frequency bands|n258]]
| rowspan="3"| Spectrum acquired
|-
|'''39'''&nbsp;GHz Ka-band
|[[5G NR frequency bands|n260]]
|-
|'''47''' GHz V-band
|[[5G NR frequency bands|n262]]
|-
|}