GCI will end its email service mid-2024

Telecommunications company GCI will end its longtime email service next year, a move that will force customers to transition to new email providers.

Spokespeople with GCI, Alaska’s largest telecommunications company, said the service will end sometime in mid-2024. At that point, customers will no longer be able to access or use their gci.net account, according to a draft fact page posted online.

“We will provide our customers formal notice at least six months in advance of email deactivation deadline,” GCI spokeswoman Heather Handyside said in an email on July 28. “Our intent is to provide cus...