The Vermont Public
Service Department says residents or businesses making changes to their
telephone service may see some delays in the next few weeks because of major
changes involving Verizon and FairPoint Communications.
FairPoint
Communications Inc. has pushed back the "cutover date" when it
assumes full responsibility of the northern New England landline phone and Internet network it bought from Verizon
Communications Inc. this year.
Two years after
launching a probe into whether telephone companies released customer data as
part of a federal government spying program, the state of Vermont may give up on it.
Concerns today about the possibility of flash floods from
torrential storms; Verizon Wireless takes over Unicel, but must sell the assets
in Vermont and upstate New
York to maintain competition. Today’s the first day
to cast a ballot in Vermont’s
primary election. A New Hampshire
fuel company is fined $6,000 for spilling fuel at two Vermont
sites.
FairPoint
Communications reluctantly agreed to a two-month delay in completing its
takeover of Verizon’s northern New
England landlines after a
consultant funded by regulators expressed concern about FairPoint’s readiness
to assume full control.
New Hampshire regulators have approved the sale of Verizon’s landline phone and
Internet service in northern New
England to North
Carolina-based FairPoint Communications. The regulators say they believe
FairPoint has shown that the proposed deal is for the public good.