 tschmidtPremium,MVM
join:2000-11-12
Milford, NH
kudos:5
 ·Fairpoint Commun..
 ·Hollis Hosting
| Too Soon to Tell Transition to FairPoint from Verizon has been rocky. It is unclear if this is simply inevitable teething problems or signs company is incapable of managing acquisition. It is easy for those of us on the outside, frustrated with service problems, to underestimate scope of the transition.
Regulators were between a rock and a hard place (to coin a phase). It was clear Verizon was not interested in servicing northern NE. They had the option to either block sale or allow it to go through and hope FairPoint was up to the challenge.
I think we need more time to see how things work out. A major concern is higher then expected lose of landline customers due to frustration with transition. FairPoint has to curb the bleeding and roll out broadband to retain customers. The difficult part will be raising enough capital to increase footprint.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed they will be successful.
/tom |
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 morboComplete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
00000 | said by tschmidt:I think we need more time to see how things work out. what do you believe is enough time? |
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tschmidtPremium,MVM
join:2000-11-12
Milford, NH
kudos:5 Reviews:
·Fairpoint Commun..
·Hollis Hosting
| said by morbo:what do you believe is enough time? I don't know - depends on what revenue picture looks like. Luckily I'm not a VT/NH/ME regulator trying to deal with situation.
/tom |
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DolganPremium
join:2005-10-01
Sun Prairie, WI Reviews:
 ·Charter
| They will be filing for bankruptcy as quickly as Hawaiian Tel. Both companies began bleeding money as soon as they took over from Verizon. Fairpoint's trouble seems more linked to poor systems/software[the Hawaiian Tel network is FUBAR--copper plant does not fair well on an island surrounded by salt water], so they may be able to recover--but would not hold my breath. The only winners in these sales were Verizon and its sharehloders. |
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Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA Reviews:
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| said by Dolgan:the Hawaiian Tel network is FUBAR--copper plant does not fair well on an island surrounded by salt water Very true. Lived in Beach Flats, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, California for 6 months, a place surrounded on 3 sides by water and less than 100 feet from ocean. Phone line went dead twice, both times due to corrosion in the plant. Pac Bell (renamed many times) tech told me once that this is normal for that neighborhood, and just to 611 it whenever it happened, and it would continue to happen about the same frequency. He said the salt water just eats the copper away. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to tschmidt
said by tschmidt:Regulators were between a rock and a hard place (to coin a phase). It was clear Verizon was not interested in servicing northern NE. They had the option to either block sale or allow it to go through and hope FairPoint was up to the challenge. I think we need more time to see how things work out. A major concern is higher then expected lose of landline customers due to frustration with transition. FairPoint has to curb the bleeding and roll out broadband to retain customers. The difficult part will be raising enough capital to increase footprint. I'm keeping my fingers crossed they will be successful. /tom Public utility licenses/easements/right of way/right to be a utility company is created for the public good/benefit. Just start a ruling to determine that Verizon's utility operations are not operating for the public benefit and seize/condemn the lines and hand them off to a non-profit corporation. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to Ulmo
said by Ulmo:said by Dolgan:the Hawaiian Tel network is FUBAR--copper plant does not fair well on an island surrounded by salt water Very true. Lived in Beach Flats, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, California for 6 months, a place surrounded on 3 sides by water and less than 100 feet from ocean. Phone line went dead twice, both times due to corrosion in the plant. Pac Bell (renamed many times) tech told me once that this is normal for that neighborhood, and just to 611 it whenever it happened, and it would continue to happen about the same frequency. He said the salt water just eats the copper away. Whatever happened to gel/submerged plant? Someone too cheap to buy gel wire? |
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I have to agree that we have to give it time. The Fairpoint crew was out today installed fibre on our street. They are rolling FAST service the middle of May in Hampton NH.
So no worries on my side of it. I want to get away from the CAPS and BLOCKS of COMCAST!!! |
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Aw c'mon-they should have seen it for what it was. No, I think Verizon just spread some of the green stuff around to make sure this pig in a poke went through. Consider Ivan's "secret" visit (that got found out) to the Maine governor when the public advocate rejected the plan. Not too much later the process began to flow more smoothly again for Verizon. What the public service boards "should" have done was reject this deal based on what they were being warned about and sent Verizon back to the drawing board. From what I understand, other Telecoms were interested in acquiring the the territory but probably weren't as lucrative a deal for Verizon as this one was. I hope an independant government commission is set up to investigate this, the sooner the better. Everyone please write their state and federal reps and demand an untainted investigation. |
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bac522
join:2003-08-04
Manchester, NH | reply to hamptonFAST
said by hamptonFAST :
I have to agree that we have to give it time. The Fairpoint crew was out today installed fibre on our street. They are rolling FAST service the middle of May in Hampton NH.
So no worries on my side of it. I want to get away from the CAPS and BLOCKS of COMCAST!!!
That's not entirely true...they are only rolling out the service were Verizon had already installed the cable. You just happen to be in that area, but those outside areas that Fios was never installed are going to be SoL with Fairpoint. It's around $5 to $6k per fiber mile to install...Fairpoint can even afford the bills today! |
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