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DampierPhillip M Dampier
join:2003-03-23
Rochester, NY
1 edit | Don't Get Stuck With Yesterday On The Rural Frontier We've been exhaustively covering the Frontier-Verizon deal on Stop the Cap!, particularly as it impacts West Virginia, where nearly the entire state would be stuck with Frontier for phone and, for many, their only wired choice for broadband service.
As a person living in Frontier's largest service area - Rochester, NY - I can say many of us have signed petitions begging Verizon to buy out Frontier locally and get out of town. The reason? The broadband backwater Frontier will saddle NY's second largest economy with indefinitely. As Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, and NYC are all being prepared for Verizon FiOS fiber to the home, Rochester lives with Frontier's slow DSL service (they managed to deliver 3.1Mbps to my home less than 1/2 mile from the city line) which actually costs MORE than Time Warner's Road Runner service once taxes, fees, and modem rental is accounted for (and being stuck with a 1-3 year service commitment Time Warner doesn't have).
If they aren't doing fiber in Rochester, forget it West Virginia.
As we've noted, Frontier's DSL service is even worse than Verizon, with slower speeds, and that pesky 5 gigabyte "acceptable use limit" language that just won't go away.
After reading hundreds and hundreds of pages of testimony from earlier deals and the current one on the table, it's just one more disaster waiting to happen with a company that will be saddled in debt, still insisting on paying dividends to stockholders, and have to magically conjure up financing to deliver this wonderful world of DSL broadband they promise even while planning to cut $500 million a year in "expenses" to help make the deal more palatable to investors on Wall Street.
By the way, nothing stops Verizon Wireless from continuing to pelt West Virginians, among others, with those "cut the phone cord" letters telling people to switch to their mobile phone and dump the wired phone line for good.
How many failed spinoffs does it take to get regulators to wise up? Three spinoffs = three bankruptcies. We've got hours of video on Stop the Cap! going back two years with endless details of the disastrous FairPoint Communications deal, which forced some businesses to threaten to leave the state just to get phone service!
Yes, there is something worse than Verizon.
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Phillip M. Dampier
Editor, Stop the Cap!
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 spewakR.I.P DadkinsPremium
join:2001-08-07
Elk Grove, CA
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| said by Dampier:Yes, there is something worse than Verizon. Phillip, could not have summed it up better than that!
Frontier CEO Wilderotter is at best a dreamer, at worst delusional.
Frontier will NOT increase speeds, will NOT be able to fund infrastructure repairs or upgrades. Her saying otherwise is pure folly! 
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