Alaska Communications Systems S-8 POSRegistration of securities for employees (post-effective amendment)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 22, 2021

Form S-8 Registration No. 333-240080

Form S-8 Registration No. 333-226124

Form S-8 Registration No. 333-199923

Form S-8 Registration No. 333-181660

Form S-8 Registration No. 333-175179

Form S-8 Registration No. 333-160615

Form S-8 Registration No. 333-153604

Form S-8 Registration No. 333-124006

Form S-8 Registration No. 333-119569

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

Form S-8 Registration No. 333-240080

Form S-8 Registration No. 333-226124

Form S-8 Registration No. 333-199923

Form S-8 Registration No. 333-181660

Form S-8 Registration No. 333-175179

Form S-8 Registration No. 333-160615

Form S-8 Registration No. 333-153604

Form S-8 Registration No. 333-124006

Form S-8 Registration No. 333-119569

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

ALASKA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS GROUP, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc. Amended and Restated 2012 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc. Amended and Restated 2011 Incentive Award Plan

Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc. 2012 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc. 2011 Incentive Award Plan

Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc. 1999 Stock Incentive Plan

Alaska Communications Systems Retirement Plan

Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc. 1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc. 1999 Non-Employee Director Stock Compensation Plan

Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement between Liane Pelletier and Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc.

(Full titles of the plans)

Leonard A. Steinberg

General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc.

600 Telephone Avenue

Anchorage, Alaska 99503-6091

(907) 297-3000

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.  ☐

EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment relates to the following Registration Statements on Form S-8 (collectively, the “Registration Statements”), in each case filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) by Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”):

On July 22, 2021, pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated December 31, 2020, by and among the Registrant, Alaska Management, Inc., as successor in interest to Project 8 Buyer, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Parent”), and Project 8 MergerSub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Registrant, with the Registrant surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the “Merger”).

In connection with the Merger, the Registrant has terminated all offerings of the Registrant’s securities pursuant to the above-referenced Registration Statements. Accordingly, pursuant to the undertakings contained in such Registration Statements to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities registered that remain unsold at the termination of the offerings, the Registrant is filing this post-effective amendment to the Registration Statements to deregister, and does hereby remove from registration, all the securities of the Registrant registered under such Registration Statements that remain unsold as of the date hereof.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statements to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Anchorage, Alaska, on July 22, 2021.