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| Rural my behind: I still don't get why Verizon cannot keep southern New Hampshire and sell off northern New Hampshire. Most of southern New Hampshire has FIOS or can be upgraded quickly. Plus I live in southern New Hampshire and I'm going to tell you that if Verizon cannot make a profit in this area they are the worst run company I've ever seen in my life. Almost all of the states residents live in southern New Hampshire and this area is "not" even close to rural.
I'm not in support of this deal with Fairport because I believe without a doubt that Verizon isn't telling the truth about why they are getting out of this area along with Fairpoint not being big enough to keep even 10% of the promises they have said thus far. This deal would be a huge step back for southern New Hampshire from my point of view because again we aren't fricking rural. That is like saying because some parts of Florida are rural that makes Clearwater rural and it just doesn't work that way.
If I had my choice I would rather see Verizon be required to provide upfront money to allow Fairport upgrade "just" southern New Hampshire to fiber. Quite a bit of the area has been fully or at least partly wired. I also believe that state of New Hampshire should have control of that money to make sure that Fairpoint spends that money on line upgrades to fiber and nothing else. If Fairpoint after one year "fails" to meet the requirements with regards to service and upgrades the state itself would take 100% control of the area. Once this happens that state can seek out other bigger companies who would gain a fairly cheap entry into a fiber market and trust me that won't be hard. Heck I could see a company like DirecTV considering this because it could afford them a triple play bundle with a very low cost investment compared to say a Clearwire expansion into southern New Hampshire.
The State of New Hampshire should be acting in the best interests of its residents and right now I cannot believe they would think Fairpoint would be in the best interests of the states residents at least without any fall backs for poor service like I said above. At least with a fall back to state control we are protected but hey if Fairpoint provides very good service and upgrades the lines to fiber as required I'll be very happy with that. But the minute they start falling off they must improve or lose control to the state. Hey if no company can make a profit as Verizon so well says (Verizon is one of the big boys too) "and" we are so rural as both Verizon and Fairpoint have said than I think this falls exactly in line with what a state is for. States offer internet service etc for cities that are rural and hard to profit so its not uncommon at all. |
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | said by LonghornXP:I still don't get why Verizon cannot keep southern New Hampshire and sell off northern New Hampshire. There are two reasons. The first is that Verizon has tried to sell off rural areas in other states and found that state utility commissions are almost always against such obvious "cherry picking" within a state. The second is that the value of the remaining network in the three states would be much less without the most profitable part, southern New Hampshire. |
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