http://www.telecompetitor.com/frontier-verizon-deal-hits-turbulence-in-illinois/ Providing insight, analysis, and commentary on the evolving telecom competitive landscape Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:28:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.telecompetitor.com/frontier-verizon-deal-hits-turbulence-in-illinois/comment-page-1/#comment-10244 bobinillinois Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:57:16 +0000 http://www.telecompetitor.com/?p=3759#comment-10244 Comparing Fairpoint and Hawaiian Telcom to Frontier Communications is like comparing apples and oranges. When Fairpoint merged they had a little over 300,000 customers, Hawaiian Telcom had even fewer. Right now Frontier has 2.4 million customers in 24 states. They are one of the largest phone companies in the country. Yes, Frontier is making a large purchase, but it is prepared in ways that the previous Verizon purchasers were not. They know how to manage and maintain large systems. In my opinion the biggest advantage they have is that they know what they are getting. These lines are crap. People act like Verizon is doing them some great service right now that Frontier can't continue with. Verizon hasn't maintained these lines in years. They don't want them. Now they are unloading them so they don't have to deal with it. Frontier knows they are going to have to put work into this and they are prepared to do it. Comparing Fairpoint and Hawaiian Telcom to Frontier Communications is like comparing apples and oranges. When Fairpoint merged they had a little over 300,000 customers, Hawaiian Telcom had even fewer. Right now Frontier has 2.4 million customers in 24 states. They are one of the largest phone companies in the country. Yes, Frontier is making a large purchase, but it is prepared in ways that the previous Verizon purchasers were not. They know how to manage and maintain large systems. In my opinion the biggest advantage they have is that they know what they are getting. These lines are crap. People act like Verizon is doing them some great service right now that Frontier can't continue with. Verizon hasn't maintained these lines in years. They don't want them. Now they are unloading them so they don't have to deal with it. Frontier knows they are going to have to put work into this and they are prepared to do it.

]]> http://www.telecompetitor.com/frontier-verizon-deal-hits-turbulence-in-illinois/comment-page-1/#comment-9963 @RyanBusing Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:44:30 +0000 http://www.telecompetitor.com/?p=3759#comment-9963 Let's hope the Frontier doesn't follow in the footsteps of FairPoint and Hawaiian Telecom. Let's hope the Frontier doesn't follow in the footsteps of FairPoint and Hawaiian Telecom.

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