FairPoint Communications
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FairPoint Communications, Inc. | |
Type | Public (NYSE: FRP) |
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Founded | 1991 |
Headquarters | Charlotte, NC, USA |
Industry | Communications Services |
Products | Broadband Internet services, Local wireline and wireless telecommunication services |
Website | www.fairpoint.com |
FairPoint Communications, Inc. is a rural telephone provider. It is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
[edit] Service areas
FairPoint provides services to rural areas in 18 states through 31 companies:
- Alabama
- Colorado
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Kansas
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- Missouri
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
[edit] Verizon spinoff
Verizon Communications announced that it will be splitting New England Telephone operations in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont into a new Bell Operating Company. It will then spin-off that company and it will be merged with FairPoint [1].
[edit] External links
ACS · AT&T · CenturyTel · Cincinnati Bell · Deltacom · Embarq · FairPoint · Frontier · Hawaiian Telcom · Qwest · TDS · Verizon · Windstream