droobiePremium
join:2007-10-09
Bangor, ME | reply to wifi4milez
Re: Verizon should teach them a lesson Obviously you've never been in one of the existing Fairpoint markets or you'd discover that Fairpoint owns virtually none of its DSL infrastructure and is incapable (and often unwilling) to improve their services. These current markets I speak of are also covered with rural telecom exemptions, which means they're not required to allow competition on their lines. People pay 80$ a month for 1.5/1.0 DSL service, which is often riddled with disconnects and hardly any support.
I don't see where Fairpoint has earned support in this idea that they are capable to replace a much better funded company like Verizon. They have done nothing but create TV ads and promises that are not backed by how they currently and previously have done business. If someone were famous for lying, misleading, and not providing a quality, would YOU suddenly decide to trust them? After all, the only thing with more reach than phone on the poles here is electric service.
Also, if you recall, AT&T has many rural southern markets they DO keep and maintain, especially in the state of Oklahoma alone. In these markets they keep and offer at least 3M/768 service and are comparable to telco services offered in their other markets. However, like here in Maine, the telco often receives subsidies and grants to help offset extra costs and to help them evolve broadband services. As a matter of fact, the State of Maine foolishly handed Verizon 12 million dollars in a back door deal to add DSL for a small group of potential customers. That was money that COULD'VE gone to the ConnectME program to help wireless ISPs evolve service to those areas.
There is NOTHING guaranteeing that Fairpoint would not thrust this horrible DSL offering onto ALL of their service area either, including kicking third-party DSL carriers out of the central offices. Seeing as my DSL carrier is light-years beyond anything Verizon or Fairpoint offer currently, that would be a large step backwards and virtually destroy at least one local ISP in this state.
I'm tired of these people in major metros that seem to think they understand rural telecom. |
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| Maybe Fairpoint would have a stroke of genius and simply allow GWI to run their DSL infrastructure here in Maine and NH. 
I was formerly ambivalent about the Fairpoint purchase, but in recent months I've become concerned about what would happen to our beloved GWI under Fairpoint. I guess I'd rather just stick with the known evil (Verizon) at this point. The excessively warm and fuzzy TV ads that Fairpoint is airing are certainly not helping their case any. |
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droobiePremium
join:2007-10-09
Bangor, ME | Actually, I'd like that a fair deal. GWI has a big fiber network and already offers ADSL2+ and voice services in some of the least populated areas, including in Aroostook county.
Statistically Fletcher (CEO of GWI) will go to the state house and kick some butt if he thinks he's being messed with. I suspect if that's the case with the Fairpoint deal, he'll be back there if he hasn't been already.
Knowing that, I'm only somewhat concerned. It seems the PUC would be livid and come to GWI's defense. |
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