OwlSaverOwlSaverPremium
join:2005-01-30
Berwyn, PA Reviews:
 ·Verizon FiOS
| How can they stop this? Without considering the merits of Verizon or Frontier, how can anyone stop this? Obviously, it is not anti competitive. If anything, it creates some level of competition.
As far as regulation goes, does it not have to be based on health and safety? What is the health and safety argument for forcing Verizon to keep assets that it does not want?
If Frontier is a viable concern that can legally run a phone system, it would seem hard for this or any divestiture deal to be blocked. And even if you do block it, won't Verizon just neglect the assets? They don't want them. |
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 ·WOW Internet and..
| yep! VZ will let the areas rot or file at the State PUCs they're going to abanden the areas and let the states deal with it.
Ohio is one of the many states that give that option, and includes the option for ILECs as well. I'm suprised VZ and ATT hasn't used it by now. |
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| reply to OwlSaver
This same thing happened 2000 when USWest/Qwest was going to sell a bunch of exchanges to Citizens Communications(now Frontier). Citizens was going to buy exchanges in every USWest state, except Utah. The Utah PUC insisted USWest had to allow the other independents in the state to bid on the exchanges being sold. It turned out Citizens got NO exchanges in Utah, and subsequently the rest of the deal fell through, but the Utah sales still happened. So the states can have some major impact. |
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