Wrangell Sentinel -

Alaska telecommunications company GCI no longer plans to end its longtime email service.

The company had said last summer it would end the service and cancel gci.net and alaskan.com accounts sometime in mid-2024. It also launched a new fee for the old accounts, at $4.99 monthly.

The company said it hosted about 40,000 email accounts last summer. The announcement upset many customers who had used GCI for their email for decades.

But last month, the company said in an online statement that it is “no longer pursuing any options that would affect your GCI email address.”

Existing email accounts wi...