I would be willing to travel down to help restore infra; I did this back around Sandy as well. Is there anyone we can contact?
On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 10:51 PM scott via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > > > On 8/17/23 2:03 AM, John Levine wrote: > > According to Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com>: > >> -=-=-=-=-=- > >> > >> It's my understanding that the Hawaiian ILEC is now owned by Cincinnati > >> Bell, which is also a unique historical artifact, as it was its own > >> independent corporation/operating entity in the region of Cincinnati > during > >> the era of the pre-1984 Bell system. > > > > Not that unique, SNET was also a Bell affiliate in most of Connecticut. > > > > Hawaiian Tel has a very painful history. It was independent until > > 1967, then bought by GTE, then merged into Verizon along with the rest > > of GTE in 2000, then sold to a hedge fund in 2004 which knew nothing > > about telephony and ran it into bankruptcy, then an independent public > > company from 2010 to 2017, when it was bought by Cincinnati Bell, > > which in turn was bought in 2021 by Australian conglomerate Macquarie. > > Yep, that's it. And the hedge fund (The Carlyle Group) thing was a > complete disaster. I was here for all that. Fugly is all I can say. > > > > > Running phone systems on islands is very expensive. There's only > > 160,000 people on Maui, about the same as Salinas CA, but separated > > from the rest of the world by a lot of water. > > We have a lot of undersea fiber and it is all connected into one big > MPLS network for the internet stuff. There is still SS7 stuff out > there, too. I am unfamiliar with that part. > > scott > -- Sincerely, Jason W Kuehl Cell 920-419-8983 jason.w.ku...@gmail.com
