FairPoint Hopes To Delay $11 Million Debt Payment > My best guess...

My best guess...

doubt it. they'll come back if they file for Chp. 11. they'll only go that far to get rid of some of their contracts.

If they were smart they'd get rid of their ISP side and outsource it so some other company- would shed a lot of debt and still keep jobs in this country if the used a company that kept jobs here.

reply to Go Tarheels
If they declare bankruptcy, maybe Verizon can buy them at fire sale prices. That way they keep the money they already got, the tax breaks they got and wind up with all the infrastructure in their portfolio again.
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I support the right to keep and arm bears.

Hence the name FailPoint.

Alas, a relative is mired in their FAILure to pay overtime. They have employees working extra hours, under an "emergency" clause.

Where's that "pudding" now, oh Southern leader?
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Weeeeeeee!

reply to Go Tarheels
If that happens, it will be the best news for people up there since sliced bread. My website partner lives up there and the broadband situation is dire. once you get out of the cities and a few towns, there is nothing but sat and in a snowy clime like that, tree-filled as well, things are not optimal, to say the least.

Also, at his office, which has DSL, the connection is up, down and all around. The problems sound, to me like DNS or DHCP issues, or exhaust on a rather grand scale.

If where I was, yesterday, in the Poconos, setting up a wireless home network, can have both DSL and cable(Bubba, this was the WILDS. Deer in people's yards. Bears a common occurence. Re-fargin'-MOTE.), them folks in VT can have HSI too. It's just a matter of will. And some state legislative effort, methinks.

Wow, you don't get out of the city much do ya?

I see deer, bear, raccoons, grouse, etc. in my yard all the time, and I'm not in an area even close to remote.

Northern and central NH, VT, and ME ARE remote. There are some pretty remote places in MI too. That being said, I'm 20min's outside of Boston and I've seen packs of deer running through our neighborhood, so that certainly doesn't qualify a place as remote.