EXHIBIT 4.1

                                    SPECIMEN

                        Company Common Stock Certificate
                            for Class A Common Stock
                                  of Registrant





                                                            CLASS A COMMON STOCK
                                                                   Shares
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NUMBER         [GCI          GENERAL COMMUNICATION, INC.
SA             LOGO]                                             SEE REVERSE FOR
                                                             CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
               INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF ALASKA

[ART WORK]        THIS CERTIFIES THAT

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                  IS THE OWNER OF

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                           Fully paid and  non-assessable  shares of the Class A
                  common stock of the par value of no par per share of

                           GENERAL COMMUNICATION, INC.
[ART WORK]
                  (the   "Corporation")   transferable   on  the  books  of  the
                  Corporation  by  the  holder  hereof  in  person  or by a duly
                  authorized   attorney  upon  surrender  of  this   Certificate
                  properly endorsed. This Certificate is not valid unless signed
                  by the Transfer  Agent of the  Corporation  and the  facsimile
                  signatures of its duly authorized officers.


                                     Countersigned and Registered:

    Dated                President                  Transfer Agent and Registrar
                         Secretary   By:            Authorized Signature



  [Corporate
  Seal]


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                                                          REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                                                          II-590
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                                    SPECIMEN             EXHIBIT 4.1 [continued]

         The  Company is  authorized  to issue  shares of more than one class of
common  stock and also more than one series of a class of preferred  stock.  The
Company will furnish to a shareholder,  upon request and without charge,  a full
summary  statement of the  designations,  preferences,  limitations and relative
rights  of the  shares  of each such  class  authorized  and,  in  addition  for
preferred stock,  the variations in the relative rights and preferences  between
shares of each series as determined by the board of directors.

         The following  abbreviations,  when used in the inscription on the face
of this certificate,  shall be construed as though they were written out in full
according to applicable laws or regulations:

TEN COM  -- as tenants in common           UNIF GIFT MIN ACT -- .. Custodian ..
TEN ENT  -- as tenants by the entireties                      (Cust)     (Minor)
JT TEN   -- as joint tenants with right of                     under Uniform 
            survivorship and not as tenants                    Gifts  to Minors
            in common                                          Act..............
                                                                     (State)
COM PROP-- as community property           UNIF TRF MIN ACT -- ..Custodian 
                                                             (Cust)
                                                               (until age ___)
                                                                .. under Uniform
                                                              (Minor)
                                                                Transfers to 
                                                                Minors Act .....
                                                                         (State)


     Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.



         For Value Received,                          hereby sell(s), assign(s)
         and transfer(s) unto


         PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER
         IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

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         (PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF 
         ASSIGNEE)
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         -----------------------------------------------------------------shares
         of the capital stock  represented  by the within  Certificate,  and do
         hereby  irrevocably  constitute and appoint

         -------------------------------------------------------attorney in fact
         to transfer the said stock on the books of the within named Corporation

         Dated


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                           NOTICE:  THE  SIGNATURE  TO  THIS   ASSIGNMENT   MUST
                                    CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME AS WRITTEN UPON THE
                                    FACE OF THE CERTIFICATE IN EVERY PARTICULAR,
                                    WITHOUT  ALTERATION  OR  ENLARGEMENT  OR ANY
                                    CHANGE WHATSOEVER.
Signature Guaranteed:

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THE SIGNATURE SHOULD BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE
GUARDIAN INSTITUTION PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE 17AD-15.

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                                                          REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                                                          II-591