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| Re: FairPoint gives us no reason to hope for the best... said by TKJunkMail  : And why should anyone want to try and wire an area with so few people and no chance of profit? At best they will have to make do with satellite broadband or Wimax if that proves feasible. I do not disagree with you on that- But, respectfully, I think that you miss my main point.
Northern New England is accustomed to "making do" with whatever they can get- I know, as I have a remote three season home in Camden, Maine that is no way, no how, going to be on any main HSI service in the foreseeable future. I knew that many years ago, though, and don't feel in any way slighted.
What I take exception to is another Verizon dump. They bought former New England Telephone to get the profitable areas including Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Southern New Hampshire. They are keeping those, with the exception of Southern New Hampshire.
It is an absurd intention to sell the rest of the area to FairPoint, a utility that is in dubious condition, appears to be completely unable to serve the overall area, and can not maintain the fiber that serves many thousands in Southern New Hampshire. That New Hampshire area is primarily in the Boston commuter range, and will be in a world of hurt if FairPoint reverts the fiber to currently non-existent DSL as planned.
FairPoint hasn't presented themselves well at the hearings- I have been to a number in both Maine and New Hampshire. Their promises seem empty, as most of their answers seem to be in the "just take our word for it, it will happen" category.
I am tired of seeing large players like Verizon come into the area, skim the cream, and move out and leave the rest of the area worse off than they were before they showed up in the first place.
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Thomaston, ME | Re: FairPoint gives us no reason to hope for the best... Well said mouse  | |
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| Camden does have some wireless ISPs that may actually serve your remote home area on 900mhz. Midcoast.com is one such company that serves there, you may want to try them if you haven't already.
I do think that Verizon will keep and maybe even expand FIOS through Southern New Hampshire the rest of the way and then claim, "We're not the dialtone guys, we're just the FIOS guys". Similar has been done in AT&T markets in So Cal, where Verizon offers FIOS, but has never had a copper plant.
In other words, Verizon can have their cake AND eat it too. They don't want a copper business anymore, but this way they'd not be forced to upgrade places to fiber, they just could if they decided they wanted to.
I do agree with your thoughts that Fairpoint's plans seem empty. Also - Fairpoint has made it known they intend to use/keep their rural exemptions in their existing markets as well. That means the largest choice in those markets is "Fairpoint (max 1.5/1.0 DSL) for 79.99". No competition in data or in voice services on those copper networks.
If Verizon wanted to sell these markets to AT&T (though I'm not an AT&T fan in the least), then that might be something to entertain. However, selling to essentially a 'two-men and a truck' telco that is well disliked in the tri-state region completely defies logic.
I have yet to see one Fairpoint customer anywhere in the US that is content or happy with their service. However, I've seen many posts from people in FL, VT, ME that absolutely hate their Fairpoint service.
The standard shouldn't be the empty promises. It should be what Fairpoint has done up to this point. If their past performance is the standard, this acquisition shouldn't be allowed. | |
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