Spokespeople with GCI, Alaska’s largest telecommunications company, said the service will end sometime in mid-2024. At that point, customers will no longer be able to access or use their gci.net account, according to a draft fact page posted online. …
GCI has provided the email service since the mid-1990s, she said. About 40,000 accounts use the domain. …
Handyside said … GCI will likely implement a fee later this year for customers who continue to use the email service. She said the fee will be $4.99 monthly. Customers who pay it will still see the email service end in mid-2024.
GCI, launched in Alaska in 1979, has undergone major changes in recent years. It was sold to Liberty Broadband of Colorado in 2017, upsetting some customers who wanted the ownership to remain local. Among other developments, it has outsourced its call center to the Philippines, affecting dozens of Alaska jobs, and ended its cable TV platform in favor of an internet streaming service.