Reviews:
 ·Optimum Online
 ·Verizon FiOS
| Upgrade the plant! This means they *MUST* upgrade the plant to at least U-Verse or FTTP/Docsis 2 grade or the bankruptcy will mean nothing and the company will go under altogether depite bankruptcy. Consumers are fedup with being screwed with vastly outdated last mile technology and even in areas with NO competition and fairpoint sits as the lone-monopoly, consumers will choose none of the above without the upgrades and bankruptcy will mean nothing, my first prediction will at long last come true.. Verizon & possibly AT&T will split the spoils for pennies on the dollar in a liquidation sale and reclaim the assets debt-free! Since tax-payer funded incentives are not on the table anymore or have too much red tape, why not use the bankruptcy laws to wipe clean all the debt from decades of last mile neglect & profiteering? This is not an old idea.. to offload a failing part of a business let them file for bankruptcy, thus protecting the reputation and credit rating of the larger company and re-acquiring the debt-free assets on the cheap. If banks can do it to real estate, why not companies, after all greed is still good, even under the Obama administration... |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Comcast
| Here's the problem: unlike cable plant where DOCSIS upgrades are relatively cheap (less than $100 per custome) even upgrading to ADSL2+ would probably run FairPoint around $200 per customer, maybe a little more. Qwest cited a figure of $175 per customer awhile back, and they STILL don't have ADSL2+ in my of the areas they serve. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to tmc8080
The spinoff commitments the PUCs extracted from FP, however small, just all become invalid in bankruptcy court. |
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