Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL |  Time for Uncle Sam to bail FairPoint out.
 I predict that Uncle Sam will bail FairPoint out while Verizon skips on down the road carrying the bag of money from the transaction. A Corporation wins. Taxpayers loose. | |
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 | patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| Re: Time for Uncle Sam to bail FairPoint out. Its best if they fine the company to bankruptcy or bankruptcy protection, then the state buys out Fairpoint for a low price as an out of court settlement, if that doesn't work, get a judge to sign a condemnation order making Fairpoint's network "public property" for "the benefit of the people". Either sell the network off piecemeal to counties/towns and sell the long lines to a backbone provider. Or just split Fairpoint up by each state, and create a not-for-profit whose shares are owned by the respective state govt to run the network. | |
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Dogfather
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join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA
1 edit | Re: Time for Uncle Sam to bail FairPoint out. He's saying state taxpayers as opposed to Uncle Sam (as the OP mentions), who would be the rest of us Federal taxpayers. | |
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join:2001-08-16
Concord, NC
clubs: | Re: Time for Uncle Sam to bail FairPoint out. The PUC's who allowed this should all be fired. Most of the public opposed this yet the states still allowed it to happen | |
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Dogfather
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join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA
1 edit | Re: Time for Uncle Sam to bail FairPoint out. Why? Because a power supply in a 9-1-1 center went bad? That's dumb.
Transitions always have issues and this delay in the transition to FairPoint is all of a whopping 60 days. Hardly the end of the world. | |
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