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Fairpoint Can Keep Penalty Money To Build Up Broadband Coverage

If Fairpoint agrees to the PUC's terms, NH could see better broadband coverage

The question of whether to offer customers rebates for bad service or expand broadband access throughout the state is now pretty much for Fairpoint to decide. The telecom company faces $2.8 million in fines related to a series of service problems that cropped-up back in 2009.  Rather than return the fees to customers, Fairpoint asked [...]

Fairpoint Fees Could Go To Customers…Or Back To Fairpoint

Fairpoint says in the long run, customers will get better service if the company can pump fees back into its broadband network

Fairpoint Communications customers might get a small sliver cut from their phone bills.  It all depends on an upcoming Public Utilities Commission decision about how, exactly, the company can pay some hefty fees.  As Bob Sanders reports for TheLobbyNH.com, the PUC recently slapped Fairpoint with $2.8 million in “penalties for inadequate service”: “The PUC had [...]

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