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Verizon was clever,Failpoint was arrogant. And Cap-Gemini never called before they dug. And the hole can't be filled... |
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swintec Premium Member join:2003-12-19 Alfred, ME
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swintec
Premium Member
2009-Aug-4 3:54 pm
Give it some time..In a few months, you will see our landlines on Craigslist for sale. Unfortunately, Fairpoint will fall for the Nigerian scam where they send a check for quadruple the amount and then tell them to keep the extra for the "trouble". |
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FFH5 Premium Member join:2002-03-03 Tavistock NJ
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FFH5
Premium Member
2009-Aug-4 4:07 pm
Reverse Morris TrustThis tax law gets knocked all the time. But it isn't some tax dodge. It allows EXISTING shareholders of assets to keep those assets without having to pay a transfer tax when the assets are spun off to new mgt. It is the same assets, just under new mgt. Why should the existing shareholders get banged with extra taxes. And it isn't Verizon that got some big tax writeoff, it is the stockholders that weren't hit with some bogus capital gains tax. » en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re ··· is_trust |
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zed2608 Premium Member join:2007-09-30 Cleveland, TN 1 edit
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zed2608
Premium Member
2009-Aug-4 4:18 pm
relly it does not matter anymore about verzion in fairpoints case anymore thats done happened and wont change
point is i think fairpoint is imploding and will like be broken up and sold to at&t or some other telacom |
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to FFH5
said by FFH5:This tax law gets knocked all the time. But it isn't some tax dodge. It allows EXISTING shareholders of assets to keep those assets without having to pay a transfer tax when the assets are spun off to new mgt. It is the same assets, just under new mgt. Why should the existing shareholders get banged with extra taxes. And it isn't Verizon that got some big tax writeoff, it is the stockholders that weren't hit with some bogus capital gains tax. » en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re ··· is_trust I agree, I don't see what's so shady about this. Besides, nobody held a gun to FairPoint's head and made them accept this deal. As another poster said, FairPoint's problems now are not Verizon's fault. FairPoint knew the song before they agreed to dance. |
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SLD Premium Member join:2002-04-17 San Francisco, CA |
SLD
Premium Member
2009-Aug-4 4:51 pm
I remember all of the predictions that that whatever telco bought those customers would basically die a horrible death. Sounds like they were correct. |
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FairPoint ... STOP .. wasting money ...FairPoint you messed up and come clean. You paid way too much for the lines. You should have made Verizon help in the switch over on the billing and the other issues in the call center ....
As far as I'm concern ... game over and call the lawyers an file for chapter 11 .... or in your case lets say Chapter 7 ... |
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Re: Reverse Morris TrustATT won't take them. They would have already bought them.
ATT will be the next ones to spin off their rural networks as they're busy with U-Verse and ATTM.
It wouldn't be a bad idea at this point for Co-Ops and small ILECs to start merging and start buying some of these exchanges. |
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to GenBlood
Re: FairPoint ... STOP .. wasting money ...and in your case your 911 will stop working and then you can come on here and complain about that. |
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to hottboiinnc4
Re: Reverse Morris Trustsaid by hottboiinnc4:It wouldn't be a bad idea at this point for Co-Ops and small ILECs to start merging and start buying some of these exchanges. And guess who shows up to buy them then.... |
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to BillRoland
said by BillRoland:I agree, I don't see what's so shady about this. Besides, nobody held a gun to FairPoint's head and made them accept this deal. As another poster said, FairPoint's problems now are not Verizon's fault. FairPoint knew the song before they agreed to dance. Since when is FairPoint a rational, thinking person that sees consequences, and not a limited liability corporation? |
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bobobobo to patcat88
Anon
2009-Aug-5 7:59 am
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Centurytel (or Centurylink), Fairpoint, or Frontier. The triumvirate of two-bit telecom titans. |
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Fairpoint is the one people are saying to leave and give up.
ATT doesn't want it, VZ doesn't want it. At least Fairpoint is trying to make it work. |
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tim_kButtons, Bows, Beamer, Shadow, Kasey Premium Member join:2002-02-02 Stewartstown, PA |
to GenBlood
Re: FairPoint ... STOP .. wasting money ...said by GenBlood:. You should have made Verizon help in the switch over on the billing and the other issues in the call center .... At least on the DSL side (and most likely POTs) Verizon worked with Fairpoint for months while they were suppose to get up to speed. Mostly things were handled like normal until the cutover. |
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