January 21, 2003

David Morris, (907) 265-5396; dmorris@gci.com
Sarah Erkmann, (907) 561-4488; serkmann@gci.net

GCI LAUNCHES NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY

The Official GCI Anchorage Phone Directory Will Give Business Customers More Value and Substantial Savings

ANCHORAGE, AK -- GCI announced today that it is turning a new page in local telephone competition when it launches a new Anchorage-area telephone book later this year. More than 200,000 copies of the new White and Yellow Pages phone directory will be distributed to all Anchorage residential and business customers in December 2003, and will include listings as far south as Hope and as far north as Healy and Denali National Park as well as thousands of Yellow Pages ads.

According to GCI President Ron Duncan, the new Anchorage Phone Directory will bring more competition to the local telephone directory market in the form of lower Yellow Pages advertising rates for both GCI customers and non-customers.

"In our 20 years of service to Alaska, many businesses have asked us to bring our competitive edge to Yellow Pages advertising," Duncan said. "We've saved Alaskans millions of dollars on their voice and data communications and we will do the same with Yellow Pages advertising."

Duncan expects the new telephone directory product to break even financially in 2003, and make a profit thereafter.

Paul Landes, GCI's chief marketing officer, said customers of the new phone book will be able to double the value of their current advertising budget by increasing the size, look and position of their Yellow Pages ad.

Landes added that customers of all existing local phone companies will be included in the white pages, and that GCI customers will receive substantial discounts on Yellow Pages advertising.

GCI will team up with ALLTEL Publishing, a division of ALLTEL Corporation of Little Rock, Arkansas, to produce and distribute the Official GCI Anchorage Phone Directory. ALLTEL Publishing publishes approximately 370 directory titles in 36 states including directories for its own telephone operations. ALLTEL's client list includes eight Alaskan telephone companies. Most recently, ALLTEL has developed fully-searchable Internet versions of print directories, including the MTA Directory (http://www.mtadirectory.com), published for Matanuska Telephone Association, which went live on the Internet in June.

"The partnership with GCI will offer businesses in Anchorage a choice for their Yellow Pages advertising," said Ken Beach, president of ALLTEL Publishing. "Our focus has always been to provide the people of Alaska with accurate, user-friendly directories. This partnership will allow ALLTEL to represent GCI with the same exceptional level of customer service we currently supply in other parts of Alaska."

The directory will include residential and business listings - and be distributed to customers -- in Anchorage, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Fort Richardson, Girdwood, Hope, Indian, Portage, Rainbow and Sunrise. The white pages portion of the telephone directory will include Wasilla, Palmer, Eagle River, Chugiak, Big Lake, Houston, Willow, Talkeetna, Anderson, Clear, Cantwell, Healy, Denali National Park, Tyonek and Beluga.

All of GCI's local service customers who wish to be included will be listed in the directory. In order to make the new directory the most complete and accurate phone book in the market, GCI will purchase the most up-to-date white pages listings available from all other existing local phone companies serving the Anchorage market.

The Official GCI Anchorage Phone Directory also will be available online when it debuts in December 2003 at www.gciyellowpages.com

GCI (Nasdaq:GNCMA) is an Alaska-based integrated communication provider that delivers voice, video and data services through its fiber optic, satellite, hybrid fiber coaxial and metropolitan area networks. More information about GCI can be found at www.gci.com.