Fairpoint Communications CEO Gene Johnson is expected in New Hampshire today to meet with employees.
He was in Maine yesterday, meeting with employees a day after FairPoint completed its $2.3 billion deal for Verizon’s wired telephone and Internet business in northern New England.
In an interview with The Associated Press at a FairPoint office in South Portland, Johnson talked up the company’s plans and dismissed Monday’s plunge in the stock price.
He said FairPoint should be thought of as an Internet company, not an old-fashioned telephone company.
Johnson said skeptics will be won over in the months ahead as FairPoint takes over Verizon’s land-based assets in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.