 morboComplete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
00000 | reply to tschmidt
Re: Too Soon to Tell 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
 ·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:
·SONIC.NET
| 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 | 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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