On 10/27/2009 08:11 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: > I went to a presentation the other night where a person from Fairpoint > said that they had just put in a new Terabit switch as one of three they > had installed in New Hampshire. They are going after the broadband > business, and will probably lump "POTS" on top of that. They indicated > that Verizon had not done much in the way of real improvement to rural > areas (as opposed to Nashua or other cities) for a long time.
They only ever expected to make money in the video (over ADSL2) business. Nobody ever thought they had enough reserve capital, it was a debt-leveraged play, and a crashed economy certainly bollixed their business plan. The trouble with Chapter 11, though, is who's going to extend them credit from the vendor sphere? They're holding a license to defraud their creditors. 'Cash on the barrel' would seem to be the acceptable terms. Is anybody aware of any actual video roll-out that's been done? One would think they'd have gone after revenue immediately, but that seems not to be the case, at least in my area. Maybe if this does crash and burn the PUC will get out of the monopoly-granting business. A man can dream, can't he? -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/