It's not just consumers and workers who are concerned about FairPoint's financial status. Now, Morgan Stanley has issued a report warning of a looming financial crisis for FairPoint. Read More »
Hundreds of workers and consumers gathered at Waterfront Park in Burlington, Vermont, to protest Verizon's plan to sell its landlines in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont to FairPoint Communications, a small company based in North Carolina. Read More »
In a hearing yesterday before the Vermont Public Service Board, representatives from the CWA and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers urged the Board to deny Verizon's proposed sale of 1.6 million Northern New England land lines to FairPoint Communications. Read More »
Opposition continues to build to the proposed Verizon-FairPoint deal in Northern New England. Last weekend, about 1,000 consumers, workers, and community activists gathered at a rally in Portsmouth, N.H., to protest the deal. Read More »
The key to breaking down the digital divide is cooperation--between the public and private sector, between citizens of different communities, and between local governments. A terrific example of the latter is a joint effort by the state legislature leaders from Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine to make sure that Verizon's proposed sale of 1.6 million land lines to FairPoint Communications won't leave New Englanders behind. Read More »
We've already explained how Verizon's proposed $2.7 billion sale of local lines in Vermont is a bad deal for residents of New England. Now, former CWA staffer Steve Early has contributed a thorough analysis to The Nation's website. Read More »
Vermont took another impressive step forward towards universal high-speed Internet this month. The state House has passed a bill that would create a new Vermont Telecommunications Authority to promote high-speed Internet access across the state. Read More »
In cooperation with Connected Nation, a nonprofit group aimed at expanding high-speed Internet access and other community-based technology improvements, CWA has developed model legislation for state-level Internet policies. Read More »
We've been keeping an eye on Verizon's proposed sale of 1.5 million Vermont land lines to FairPoint Communications, and the likely negative impact it will have on high speed internet access in rural New England. FairPoint, it seems, is in no position to build the infrastructure needed to bring high speed internet to rural communities. Read More »
This is just a taste of the great work being in Vermont, as far as making sure people are aware of just what they'd be losing in Verizon's ill-conceived plan to sell to FairPoint. Read More »
