Alaska Communications Provides Earthquake Update: Employees Safe, Minimal Network Impacts
December 01 2018 - 10:52PM
Business Wire
Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALSK) today
provided a statement regarding the November 30, 2018 earthquake and
aftershocks near Anchorage.
“We’re grateful all our employees are safe and that we had no
major service impacts from the earthquake. Thank you to our people
who monitor our network and support our customers 24/7/365,” said
Alaska Communications President and CEO Anand Vadapalli.
Technical support staff were at work today assisting customers.
Recovery work is underway and normal service hours will resume
Monday, December 3, 2018.
Service updates will be provided on our website,
www.alaskacommunications.com, and via social media on our Facebook,
Twitter and LinkedIn accounts.
We wish all our friends and neighbors the very best as we all
recover from this incident.
About Alaska Communications
Alaska Communications (NASDAQ: ALSK) is the leading provider of
advanced broadband and managed IT services for businesses and
consumers in Alaska. The company operates a highly reliable,
advanced statewide data network with the latest technology and the
most diverse undersea fiber optic system connecting Alaska to the
contiguous U.S. For more information, visit
www.alaskacommunications.com or www.alsk.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes certain "forward-looking
statements," as that term is defined in the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are
based on management's beliefs as well as on a number of assumptions
concerning future events made using information currently available
to management. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on
such forward-looking statements, which are not a guarantee of
performance and are subject to a number of uncertainties and other
factors, many of which are outside the Company’s control. Such
factors include, without limitation, Federal and Alaska Universal
Service Fund changes, funding through the rural health care
universal service support mechanism and our ability to comply with
the regulatory requirements to receive those support payments,
adverse economic conditions, the effects of competition in our
markets, our relatively small size compared with our competitors,
the Company’s ability to compete, manage, integrate, market,
maintain, and attract sufficient customers for its products and
services, adverse changes in labor matters, including workforce
levels, our ability to service our debt and refinance as required,
labor negotiations, employee benefit costs, our ability to control
other operating costs, disruption of our supplier’s provisioning of
critical products or services, the actions of activist
shareholders, the impact of natural or man-made disasters, changes
in Company's relationships with large customers, unforeseen changes
in public policies, regulatory changes, changes in technology and
standards, our internal control over financial reporting, and
changes in accounting standards or policies, which could affect
reported financial results. For further information regarding risks
and uncertainties associated with the Company’s business, please
refer to the Company's SEC filings, including, but not limited to,
the sections entitled "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion
and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in
our annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q.
Copies of the Company's SEC filings may be obtained by contacting
its investor relations department at (907) 564-7556 or by visiting
its investor relations website at www.alsk.com.
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Media Contact:Heather Cavanaugh, Director, External
Affairs and Corporate Communications, 907-564-7722
Investor Contact:Tiffany Smith, Manager, Board and
Investor Relations, 907-564-7556, investors@acsalaska.com
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