Da-Chief
06-17-2008, 13:30
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Fairpoint Communications is trying to make friends in the states of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont after buying Verizon's DSL and landline networks. Unfortunately, they're not making a very good impression, since 911 outages have been plaguing the Fairpoint network the past few months (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/94637). Problems continue in Maine, with a series of malfunctions spanning from Friday through this week, according to the Bangor Daily News (http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=165812&zoneid=164). Local officials say getting answers from Fairpoint has been "complicated and slow.""We re working with the call center and the people there to get it back up and operating as soon as possible," Jeff Nevins, a spokesman for FairPoint, said Monday afternoon. "Finding the problem is taking longer than one would hope, and also we recognize how critically important this is."
The New England deal was great for Verizon, giving them a $600 million tax-write-off while eradicating more than a billion in debt. Fairpoint however went from a company with 300,000 landline customers to one with nearly 2 million in short order (and plenty of debt).
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Fairpoint Communications is trying to make friends in the states of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont after buying Verizon's DSL and landline networks. Unfortunately, they're not making a very good impression, since 911 outages have been plaguing the Fairpoint network the past few months (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/94637). Problems continue in Maine, with a series of malfunctions spanning from Friday through this week, according to the Bangor Daily News (http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=165812&zoneid=164). Local officials say getting answers from Fairpoint has been "complicated and slow.""We re working with the call center and the people there to get it back up and operating as soon as possible," Jeff Nevins, a spokesman for FairPoint, said Monday afternoon. "Finding the problem is taking longer than one would hope, and also we recognize how critically important this is."
The New England deal was great for Verizon, giving them a $600 million tax-write-off while eradicating more than a billion in debt. Fairpoint however went from a company with 300,000 landline customers to one with nearly 2 million in short order (and plenty of debt).
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Fairpoint-Continues-To-Struggle-With-911-Service-95361)
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