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Old 11-24-2009, 10:09 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Pine Island Guy View Post
... I hope someone at Fairpoint has to do some explaining to their shareholders about the purchase they made for their future. ...
No, they don't have to explain to the sharehoders, the shareholders are history. Before the purchase Fairpoint stock was $20, today it is trading on pinksheets for $0.0550 (5 1/2 cents) but the "stockholders" have no say in the company. Nobody in the business is surprised, we all knew Fairpoint could not afford the $2++ billion price tag. NH PUC did force a price drop but it was not nearly enough.
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