Connect America Fund, Alaska Connect Fund, Connect America Fund-Alaska Plan et al.

Document 2025-22437 is a Final Rule published by the Federal Communications Commission in the Federal Register on December 10, 2025, with an effective date of January 9, 2026. In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) further refines the Alaska high-cost mobile-support programs to ensure efficient use of scarce universal service funds that will bring 5G-NR to Americans living, working, and traveling in Alaska. This document grants in part a Petition for Reconsideration and Clarification by GCI Communications Corp. (GCI) of the Alaska Connect Fund (ACF), granting it in part by modifying and clarifying several of its rules. These actions help better realign the requirements and expectations of the ACF with its intended universal service goals. This document also makes a clarifying correction to one ACF rule to better reflect its purpose expressed in the Alaska Connect Fund Order. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/10/2025-22437/connect-america-fund-alaska-connect-fund-connect-america-fund-alaska-plan-et-al.

No. Document 2025-22437 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.