Fairpoint

The order Friday from the Vermont board called the Fairpoint transaction a "massive and complex undertaking," citing the potential for incorrect bills and the propensity for other customer-service issues if it is completed.

Vermont Rejects Verizon Sale 2007

To obtain a dial tone at my new home took two weeks of calling Fairpoint twice every single day.

Brattleboro Reformer Most Viewed 2009

Regulators in both states have taken into consideration fears that customer service will suffer if landlines are snapped up by a smaller company such as Fairpoint, which currently has roughly 309,857 phone lines.

Vermont Rejects Verizon Sale 2007

Companies such as Fairpoint, which owns the Debt Free Direct and Clear Start brands, and Relax Group, which owns the Debtcare, Neville Eckley and The Debt Counsellors brands, are listed on the junior stock market.

This is Money | Home 2009

The demise of the copper landline is becoming less of a business issue for the big carriers, which have offset landline losses with profits from wireless services and growth from fiber-based offerings, but smaller carriers such as Fairpoint Communications and Windstream will have to figure out how to serve those who don’t want to abandon cheap copper without the benefit of hefty wireless growth.

A Dying Landline Business Sounds a Lot Like Static 2009

When I lived in Russia I had some (Russian) friends in the town of Kaluga who were big fans of the Pogues, Fairpoint Convention, and other similar bands, so this _sort_ of thing doesn't surprise me too much, but I'll be interested to see this stuff.

Discourse.net: Orthodox Celts 2009

This is a tax dodge that Verizon did with Fairpoint that caused Fairpoint to file bankruptcy.

Matthew Yglesias » Not in Vermont’s Back Yard 2010

It sold 1.5 million of them to Fairpoint in 2007, which is now struggling under the burden.

Verizon Sells Rural Access Lines to Frontier for $8.6B 2009

The deal took Fairpoint, based in Charlotte, N.C., from being a tiny rural operator to the eighth-largest U.S. phone company by number of landlines.

FairPoint Looks for New CEO 2008

A review board said it found that FairPoint "had not demonstrated that it would be financially sound as it seeks to operate the newly acquired territories in Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire -- a service territory that has five times the number of access lines as Fairpoint presently has."

Not So Super 2007