[michael c]

I am starting this thread because of the suggestion someone made in the
"phone outage" thread
I moved here [ Paugus bay a year ago] . I moved from the Fryeburg maine area [ Brownfield] and I had Fairpoint.

Believe me when i say that not one single person in the 10-15 towns covered by Fairpoint has a good thing to say about them . If you think its not so great here now,just wait.I am not kidding when I say that if we were going to have rain TOMORROW we would lose our internet today...
My internet went down at least ,,,,AT THE VERY LEAST once every 12 -14 days I am being kind when I say 12-14 days some times I would be down for 3-4 days .. Fairpoint has said that it going to spend 150 million over the next 5 years in order to bring dsl to 90 % of maine ..Big deal ! thats 30 million a year to fix that fact that about 1/2 of the stare of maine has dsl now and they expect to fix the problem with 30 Mil a year ....Of course it will be over 5 years so they won't be using their money, they will be using our money , raise our rates and then use the money we pay every month to pay for any "improvements" to Fairpoint , an improvement would be to make it so we only lose our DSL only once every 3 weeks ..That would be a huge improvment for them...if it so important for Fairpoint to buy the Verizon phone lines and such a wise investment , then why does Verizon want to sell?
only one reason and that is to make large chunks of money ,all of which will be passed on to us the consumers