Fairpoint can't even take out the trash. The migration from VZ to them was horrible. Some businesses were shut down for a few weeks because of the backhaul issues. Millions of dollars lost.
The only question is when is it going to end. Fairpoint is still a disaster.
This whole divesture is a typical VZ fraud to dump debit and unprofitable markets so they don't have to waste money upgrading equipment that will never pay for itself.
Fairpoint will never recover.
And if you don't live in the areas effected by VZ's trash dumping on fairpoint your opinion doesn't matter since you clearly have no idea until you live it.
I think the cable companies are the better of the 2 evils personally.