Tech News Vermont

Fairpoint handed in their filing on the last day of the extention they were granted by the Vermont Public Service Board.  The company has to show something to the state in order to keep Fairpoint’s certificate of public good.  Vermont Public Radio’s web site is reporting that the filling has arrived at the public service board.  The PSB is not commenting, since they haven’t had a chance to review Fairpoint’s filing.

When do Vermonters get to see the filing?  Soon I hope.  I’d like to see what Fairpoint said and how they said it.  They are facing tough times in New Hampshire and haven’t been able to keep their commitment to expand broadband on the eastern side of the Connecticut river, what have they done for Vermont?

What’s the next step if Fairpoint’s paper doesn’t convince the PSB that Fairpoint deserves to continue operating phones in Vermont?   I don’t think it will come to that.  The PSB won’t cancel Fairpoint’s license; they can’t.  There is no other company ready or even interested in Vermont’s telco infrastructure.

After a lengthy trip out of state, I’m home. I received a great email from Verizon about some of the posts that have been made on the Concord Monitor’s web site related to the hand over between Fairpoint and Verizon. A real post is coming soon and I will start recording podcasts again, very soon.

There are new news posts in the Vermont and New Hampshire media over the past week about Fairpoint Communication’s continued customer services and billing troubles.  A story on the WCAX web site follows the trials of one Fairpoint customer who is trying to cancel his service and a Concord Monitor article talks about the meeting planned between NH regulators and Fairpoint.

Fairpoint has had trouble for the past few months.  I’m personally still doing better under Fairpoint than Verizon.  My mail and sub-account management webpages actually work using Fairpoint’s site.  My DSL still goes out when it rains but it’s done that ever since Verizon botched my dry-loop conversion.

An anonymous respondent at the Concord Monitor web site writes that the infrastructure that Verizon left  behind was “an antiquated, outdated, mess.”

Every time it rains my Verizon-installed DSL drops.  I’m inclined to believe Fairpoint on this one.