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To: Tech Head who wrote (1747)	3/30/1998 5:42:00 PM
From: Ken98	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2063

DC, I also talked to her to at about 4:45 CST. As you and others have said before, she was very nice. Regarding 10K, she said there would not be any conference call tomorrow regarding earnings but she hoped there would be an announcement regarding exact time of the call. Regarding financing, she told me to expect an announcement tomorrow or Wed. and the time of the earnings announcement would possibly be included. I sensed that she was being very hesitant about earnings information and I did not go into the details with her you did about the financing. Thanks for digging further. Did you get the impression that there could be neither a financing announcement nor a financial report tomorrow? She seemed on both to indicate that it could be Wed.?

To: Tech Head who wrote (1747)	3/30/1998 10:56:00 PM
From: Night Writer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2063

Tech Head, Thanks for sharing the telephone call. Happy is a relative term. Here is some news for what it is worth. GCI doesn't seem to be worried about weather in Alaska. Of course, repairing downed telephone lines due to weather may make this a relative problem. NW GCI Wins Alaska LMDS Rights; Wireless License Covers Two-Thirds of State ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) declared GCI (Nasdaq: GNCMA) the high bidder in its recent auction for the rights to a "B" block Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS) license. The auction, which was held February 18, 1998 until March 25, determined the winners of 864 licenses throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, American Samoa and Northern Mariana Islands. LMDS is a new fixed, broadband point-to-point microwave service, which, because of the amount of spectrum that was licensed, offers more capacity than is currently available from existing wireless services. LMDS has the flexibility and the potential to promote competition in the local telephone marketplace. It may be used for two-way voice, data and video applications. "Winning this LMDS license means GCI can bypass the 'local loop' we lease from the local telephone company," said GCI President Ron Duncan. "This means a greater percentage of local traffic can be carried on our own facilities rather than on our competitor's." According to Duncan, Alaska was divided into three Basic Trading Areas (BTA) including Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau-Ketchikan. Each BTA had an "A" and "B" -- with the B block license consisting of 150 MHz of spectrum. GCI, the high bidder with $271,000 was awarded the Anchorage BTA license, which covers Anchorage, Valdez, Cordova, the Kenai Peninsula, Matanuska- Susitna Borough, Kodiak, Bethel, Bristol Bay, Dillingham, Nome, Northwest Arctic Borough and the North Slope Borough. GCI, as a cable television company, was not allowed to bid on "A" licenses. GCI (Nasdaq: GNCMA) is an Alaska-based and operated company which provides local and long-distance telephone, cable television and data communication services to more than 125,000 customers throughout the state. SOURCE GCI CO: GCI ST: Alaska IN: TLS CPR SU: 03/30/98 09:56 EST prnewswire.com