said by tenpin784 :

Telephone service as we know it will now get worse then it was, which I didn't think was possible.

Sweet.

said by Mactron Yup, look how well Hawaiian Telcom (The Carlyle Group) did after VZ dumped Hawaii in 2005. Your future has has come before.
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Do you have a cite? How did they do (or not)?

I believe I have read not long ago that the HI Telecom deal didn't produce the margins that Carlyle wanted. I haven't read anything that says that they couldn't provide telephone service at the same level as verizon had previously.