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FairPoint’s N.H. FTTP customers frustrated over snowstorm-related service outages

Published on November 9, 2011 By Don

Many of FairPoint’s (Nasdaq: FRP) New Hampshire-area FAST broadband subscribers still can’t get online due to software issues at a CO (central office) in Nashua following a power outage from last week’s unseasonable snowstorm.

FairPoint’s Twi…

Fairpoint Struggling to Reconnect FiOS Customers – After Major Power Outages Slammed East Coast

Published on November 8, 2011 By Don

Last week we noted that Fairpoint creditors are suing Verizon for $2 billion, claiming that the deal that unloaded Verizon networks and debt in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine was essentially a massive con orchestrated by Verizon lawyers. As part of t…

Fairpoint FiOS Customers Still Offline After Nor’Easter – Software Bug at CO Holding up Restoration Efforts

Published on November 8, 2011 By Don

Last week we noted that Fairpoint creditors are suing Verizon for $2 billion, claiming that the deal that unloaded Verizon networks and debt in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine was essentially a massive con orchestrated by Verizon lawyers. As part of t…

Fairpoint Horses Helping Vermont Broadband Deployments – As Fairpoint Hopes To Lay 1,000 Fiber Miles By June

Published on March 16, 2011 By Don

It has been interesting to watch Vermont’s broadband fortunes, given the largely rural state is a ROI nightmare for large ISP bean counters. Fairpoint Communications acquired Verizon’s unwanted New England DSL network, then subsequently imploded under …

Vermont Is Wiring Itself With Fiber Because Nobody Else Will – East Ventral Vermont Community Fiber Network moving forward…

Published on July 29, 2010 By Don

Vermont already wasn’t exactly a great state for broadband, given the largely rural state is a ROI nightmare for large ISP bean counters. Their broadband fortunes were recently made substantially worse by Fairpoint Communications, who acquired Verizon’s unwanted New England DSL network, then subsequently imploded under the not so watchful eye of Vermont regulators. Vermont’s [...]