bac522
join:2003-08-04
Manchester, NH | reply to NOCTech75
Re: Verizon's shame is Fairpoint Bingo...neither Verizon or Fairpoint's fault, but the PUC's of all three states. At the end of the day the land-line business is still a regulated monopoly and the PUC's could have squashed this deal...but I'm sure Verizon pulled some back-room handshakes with PUC members and thus the deal was approved. Why none of the legislators in the 3 states have called for hearings into the members of each state's PUC's is baffling to say the least! |
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 tschmidtPremium,MVM
join:2000-11-12
Milford, NH
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| said by bac522:Bingo...neither Verizon or Fairpoint's fault, but the PUC's of all three states. The issue was never the landline business it was expanding broadband services. It was clear Verizon had no interest in doing that. FairPoint argued, as a smaller Telco with a rural background, it was willing to accept lower profit margin.
What exactly do you think regulators should have done?
/tom |
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| said by tschmidt:said by bac522:Bingo...neither Verizon or Fairpoint's fault, but the PUC's of all three states. The issue was never the landline business it was expanding broadband services. It was clear Verizon had no interest in doing that. FairPoint argued, as a smaller Telco with a rural background, it was willing to accept lower profit margin. What exactly do you think regulators should have done? /tom At the very least added the stipulation to use Verizon's software instead of having India develop new software. They also should have looked at the fact FP was a incredibly small entity with no track record to say they could handle this kind of load and imagine that... they can't handle it. |
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 tim_kButtons, Bows, Beamer, Shadow, KaseyPremium,VIP
join:2002-02-02
Stewartstown, PA
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said by tschmidt:What exactly do you think regulators should have done? /tom In recent years government regulators aren't any better than the fox guarding the hen house. They are so much in bed with the industries they are suppose to be keeping an eye on that the corruption is blatant. Yet you'll never see any prosecutions of government or business officials.
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