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Article: The telecom dilemma.(EDITORIAL)
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- New Hampshire Business Review
- Article date:
- December 21, 2007
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To be sure, there's plenty of room for improvement, along with plenty of unanswered questions, in the proposed acquisition of Verizon's landline telephone business in northern New England by FairPoint Communications. Chief among the concerns should be that large parts of the telecommunications infrastructures of New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont have been put in a vulnerable position, thanks to a company that has essentially been an uncaring absentee landlord for far too many years.
For decades, most telephone service in New Hampshire was provided by New England Telephone, a company whose mere name suggested it had a commitment to the region. After the AT&T ...