Where GCI reports home internet in Alaska

One state, and most of its wired map

GCI is a single-state provider. Every one of the 178,275 locations in its filing for June 30, 2026 (FCC file revision of November 10, 2026) is in Alaska, where it reports service at 63.0% of the state's 282,929 broadband serviceable locations. Leaving satellite aside, no other provider lists more Alaska locations; the next are Ethos Broadband at 44.5% and SPITwSPOTS Inc at 43.9%¹.

Cable in Alaska is, in practice, GCI. Of the 162,815 Alaska locations where any company reports cable service, GCI reports 161,369¹, and in Anchorage, Juneau and Sitka its cable reaches more than nine in ten locations.

"Reports service" has a precise meaning in the FCC data. GCI states that it could connect the location within ten business days for a standard installation. It is not a subscriber count, and a listing that is wrong can be challenged on the FCC map.

Cable at 2.5 Gbps, village service at 10 Mbps

GCI's filing breaks down into four technologies with little in common:

• Cable at 161,369 locations, advertised up to 2.5 Gbps, with 161,307 of them at 100/20 Mbps or more.
• Unlicensed fixed wireless at 10,356 locations, advertised up to 10 Mbps; 0 reach 100/20 Mbps.
• DSL over telephone copper at 6,716 locations, advertised up to 25 Mbps; 0 reach 100/20 Mbps.
• Fiber to the premises at 5,325 locations, advertised up to 2.5 Gbps, with 4,764¹ at 100/20 Mbps or more.

Fiber5,325

Cable161,369

DSL (copper)6,716

Unlicensed fixed wireless10,356

Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Broadband serviceable locations in the 50 states and DC where GCI reports each technology, as of June 30, 2026. A location reached by two technologies counts in both.

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Technology	Locations	At 100/20 Mbps or more	Fastest advertised download (Mbps)
Fiber	5,325	4,764	2,500
Cable	161,369	161,307	2,500
DSL (copper)	6,716	0	25
Unlicensed fixed wireless	10,356	0	10

The gap between the cable areas and the rest shows in a single pair of numbers. GCI reports some service at 63.0% of Alaska's locations but service of 100/20 Mbps at 58.7%¹. The difference is mostly the DSL and wireless villages, where a GCI listing means a connection advertised well below the federal 100/20 Mbps benchmark.

Juneau, Sitka, Kodiak: GCI or no wire at 100/20

In several of Alaska's towns, GCI's cable is the whole wired market at 100/20 Mbps. Across the state it is the only wired provider at that speed at 135,674 locations, 48.0% of all Alaska locations. Alaska has 155,690¹ locations with exactly one wired provider at 100/20 Mbps, so in most of them that one provider is GCI.

The City and Borough of Juneau is the clearest case. GCI reports cable at 96.8% of its 10,022 locations, and 96.7% have exactly one wired 100/20 Mbps provider; two or more are available at 0.1%. Ethos Broadband reaches 78.5% of Juneau, but at 100/20 Mbps or more only 11.2%. Sitka is nearly identical: GCI at 94.6%, one wired choice at 94.6%. In the Kodiak Island Borough GCI reaches 73.7%, and the remaining 26.3%¹ have no terrestrial provider at 100/20 Mbps at all.

In three other boroughs GCI shares the map with another large network:

• Ketchikan Gateway Borough. Ketchikan Public Utilities reports service at 98.3% of locations and fiber reaches 96.9%; GCI cable reaches 96.5%. Two or more wired choices at 100/20 Mbps are available at 96.3% of locations, against 0.1% in Juneau.
• Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Matanuska Telecom Association Inc. covers 85.9% of the borough and GCI 45.9%; two or more wired choices at 100/20 Mbps reach 22.4%.
• Fairbanks North Star Borough. GCI is third by footprint, at 67.9%, behind the fixed wireless network SPITwSPOTS Inc (83.6%) and Ethos Broadband (73.5%). Even so, 59.2%¹ of locations have only one wired provider at 100/20 Mbps.

NoneOneTwoThree or more

Juneau City and Borough

Sitka City and Borough

Kodiak Island Borough

Ketchikan Gateway Borough

Matanuska-Susitna Borough

Fairbanks North Star Borough

Alaska

Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Different wired providers (fiber, cable or DSL; FCC provider IDs) reporting 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up or more at the same location. Fixed wireless and satellite are not counted.

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Area	None	One	Two	Three or more
Juneau City and Borough	3.2%	96.7%	0.1%	0.0%
Sitka City and Borough	5.4%	94.6%	0.0%	0.0%
Kodiak Island Borough	26.3%	73.7%	0.0%	0.0%
Ketchikan Gateway Borough	3.0%	0.7%	96.3%	0.0%
Matanuska-Susitna Borough	36.3%	41.3%	22.4%	0.0%
Fairbanks North Star Borough	32.1%	59.2%	8.7%	0.0%
Alaska	34.2%	55.0%	10.7%	0.0%

Where a GCI listing means less than 25 Mbps

Outside the cable towns, GCI's filing describes a different service. In the Kusilvak Census Area, GCI reports service at 82.3% of locations and 100/20 Mbps at 0.0%: its listings there are DSL and unlicensed fixed wireless. In the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area the figures are 50.3% and 0.0%. In the Bethel Census Area, GCI is listed at 85.8% of locations but offers 100/20 Mbps at 36.1%¹; its filing there mixes cable and fiber with DSL and unlicensed fixed wireless.

These areas count as unserved for the federal BEAD program despite the GCI listings. BEAD treats a location as unserved when no wired or licensed fixed wireless provider reports reliable service of 25/3 Mbps there; DSL below that speed and unlicensed fixed wireless do not count. The result is that Kusilvak is 100.0% unserved, Yukon-Koyukuk 96.2% and Bethel 63.9%¹, even though GCI is the largest terrestrial provider in all three.

Alaska's BEAD plan, run by the Alaska Broadband Office, covers 46,508 locations, with 51.8% assigned to fiber and 33.9%³ to low-Earth-orbit satellite. The Alaska page has the plan in full.

Fiber is a small part of GCI's network

GCI's fiber footprint is small. Its 5,325 fiber locations are 1.9% of Alaska's total, and not all of them are filed at 100/20 Mbps: 4,764 are. In Anchorage, GCI reports fiber at 0.1% of locations. By comparison, Matanuska Telecom Association reports fiber at 6.1%¹ of the state.

Fiber from all providers reaches 17.1% of Alaska, a share that ranks the lowest among the 50 states and DC. Download ceilings in GCI's cable areas are high; symmetrical upload is rare. Wired service of at least 100/100 Mbps reaches 14.4% of Alaska locations, which also ranks the lowest among the states. In Anchorage, where cable is reported at 95.3% of locations, wired 100/100 Mbps reaches 6.0%¹.

Change from June 30, 2022 to June 30, 2026

GCI's filing has +30,155 more locations than in the first National Broadband Map. Over the same four years the FCC's own count of Alaska locations grew by 68,484¹, as its location list absorbed new construction and corrections, so a rising count does not by itself mean a larger share of the state. GCI's fiber locations grew by 3,787⁴ over the period.

The cable figures show the effect of the larger list. Alaska's share of locations with cable, almost all of it GCI's in the 2026 filing, went from 67.6% in June 2022 to 57.6%. The share with exactly one wired provider at 100/20 Mbps fell from 65.8% to 55.0%, while the share with two or more rose from 3.7%⁴ to 10.7%¹.

June 30, 2022December 31, 2025June 30, 2026

Cable available57.6% −10.1 pts

One wired choice55.0% −10.7 pts

Two or more wired choices10.7% +7.1 pts

Fiber available17.1% +10.9 pts

Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2022; FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of December 31, 2025; FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Shares of broadband serviceable locations in each FCC release (latest revision of each); the small number is the change in percentage points since June 30, 2022. The FCC's count of locations is updated with each release, so shares are compared rather than counts.

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Measure	June 30, 2022	December 31, 2025	June 30, 2026	Change (points)
Cable available	67.6%	58.1%	57.6%	−10.1 pts
One wired choice	65.8%	54.8%	55.0%	−10.7 pts
Two or more wired choices	3.7%	10.3%	10.7%	7.1 pts
Fiber available	6.2%	16.2%	17.1%	10.9 pts

In the latest six months, since December 31, 2025, the filing changed by −326 locations overall and by +334⁵ fiber locations. The FCC data record what GCI filed in each release, not the reasons for the change.

Anchorage, the one large city

Anchorage is the only city of 100,000 or more in GCI's filing, and holds 76,543 of its locations. GCI reports service at 95.4% of the city's 80,267 locations, all of it at 100/20 Mbps or more, and is the only wired provider at that speed at 87.1%¹. The Anchorage page covers the fixed wireless networks that also report service there.

Reading GCI's FCC filing

The FCC groups this filing under the holding company GCI Holdings LLC, with the brand names GCI Communication Corp., Quintillion Subsea Operations LLC and United Utilities, Inc.; this page counts all of them as GCI. Satellite providers are left out of the provider comparisons above because they report service at nearly every Alaska location.

The data show where GCI says service is available and the fastest download and upload speeds it advertises. They contain no prices and no measured speeds. Plans, prices and typical speeds are on the broadband facts label GCI must show at the point of sale, and individual addresses can be checked, and challenged, on the FCC National Broadband Map.

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