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Will FairPoint Run Out of Money?new

The Wall Street meltdown could really burn telephone customers in northern New England -- one of their phone company's largest lenders just went belly up.
Portland Phoenix  |  Jeff Inglis  |  09-17-2008  |  Business & Labor

FairPoint's Phone-Line Takeover is as Bad as Regulators Fearednew

The Verizon-FairPoint merger, in which a North Carolina-based little-phone-company-that-could spent $2.3 billion of mostly borrowed money to take over the northern New England operations of one of the world's largest telecommunications companies, has been more disastrous than even we thought.
Portland Phoenix  |  Jeff Inglis  |  07-03-2008  |  Business & Labor

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