Federal Communications Commission  FCC 06-188
STATEMENT OF 
CHAIRMAN KEVIN J. MARTIN
Re: Petition of ACS of Anchorage, Inc. Pursuant to Section 10 of the Communications Act of 1934, as 
Amended, for Forbearance from Sections 251(c)(3) and 252(d)(1) in the Anchorage Study Area, 
WC Docket No. 05-281
Today we remove the application of legacy network unbundling requirements on ACS of 
Anchorage, Inc. (ACS), the incumbent LEC operating in Anchorage, Alaska. This relief is warranted 
based on the specific market facts before us.  These facts demonstrate that General Communication Inc. 
(GCI) has made a substantial infrastructure investment in the Anchorage study area and has used these 
facilities to provide competing telephone services to thousands of residential and business customers.  As 
was the case in the Commission’s Qwest Omaha Order, this success of intermodal competition warrants 
the Commission’s careful exercise of its forbearance authority.  
Significantly, however, our grant of forbearance in this item is conditional.  Specifically, we 
require ACS to continue to provide loops at the same rates, terms, and conditions that it is currently 
offering pursuant to an existing commercially negotiated agreement covering Fairbanks, Alaska.  ACS 
must make this offering until commercially negotiated rates are reached.  It is my hope that commercial 
agreements will quickly be reached.