Voyager2K2
join:2001-10-04
Wayne, PA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| Management Headache?
Carlyle Group has mentioned that the new phone company will be operated as a local company.
If the revenue numbers are accurate, phone, broadband,and yellow pages are very profitable.
All facets of Verizon seem to have undergone a centralization of services to reduce redundancies and subsequently costs. Verizon wireless closed a relatively large wireless office near the PA/DE boarder last year even though their wireless business seems to be doing well in the Mid-Atlantic region. That's how successful businesses are run.
Perhaps Hawaii's landline-based services presented too many unique situations and would better be served by a locally run company?
Granted it may be hot air but the Carlyle Group has promised to do nothing but improve the current offerings. It remains to be seen.
My only question might be if the same group has the funding available to fiance upgrades as needed. $1.65 billion is a pant-load of debt to try and work around.
I don't see many similarities between Hawaii and the Upper Tier of NY BTW |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02
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I don't see many similarities between Hawaii and the Upper Tier of NY BTW
I think the upstate sales talk is a simple threat designed to loosen regulation myself, but it is being considered for sale.....according to Verizon because the profit margins simply aren't there in many of those mid-sized cities.....
Just like in Hawaii, the population volume isn't great enough to Walmartize landlines.... |
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Googled
Yay, I have FIOS
join:2001-08-13
Orchard Park, NY
 ·VoicePulse
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said by Voyager2K2  :
I don't see many similarities between Hawaii and the Upper Tier of NY BTW
Never been to Hawaii, so I can't really say for sure. I can, however, say that Upstate NY is a very nice place to live.
Lake Erie keeps looking more and more like the blue waters of the tropics thanks to the zebra mussels. We'll also eventually have white sand beaches if their shells keep washing up on shore at the rate I've been seeing. |
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Roundel
Blau Und Weiss
Premium
join:2002-03-24
Westport, CT
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 ·Optimum Online
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said by Karl Bode :
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I don't see many similarities between Hawaii and the Upper Tier of NY BTW
I think the upstate sales talk is a simple threat designed to loosen regulation myself, but it is being considered for sale.....according to Verizon because the profit margins simply aren't there in many of those mid-sized cities.....
Just like in Hawaii, the population volume isn't great enough to Walmartize landlines....
I know for sure that at Least Honolulu and the Island of Oahu is populace enough, Then again for a national company like Verizon, it may not be to be profitable.
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TrainBuff
The New Haven Railroad
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join:2003-05-01
Buffalo, NY
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Upstate new York is a nice place to live. But Hawaii doesn't get snow, ice, cold along with wind chills and anything else that goes along with Winter. But we do have nice Summers through.
And Hawaii is beautiful.
And back to Verizon. With them getting fined by the PSC for failing to meet some quotas, I would not be surprised to see them pushing ahead to sell their upstate NY market.
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| Hawaii does get snow, in fact we just got some week before last on Mauna Kea (which means white mountain). I don't mind seeing Verizon leaving as I have never got any service from that company. Up until a few years ago I had to tell them what number I was dialing from. I have only had a private line for a few years as well. What is DSL? Never heard of it. I have always wanted phone service. I was only worried that the local power company bought Verizon (HELCO, the power company from Hell!). |
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