[182754] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [BULK] Verizon exiting California
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike)
Fri Jul 31 10:32:56 2015
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 07:32:49 -0700
From: Mike <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 07/31/2015 06:27 AM, Mike Hammett wrote:
> Can anyone else back that up (or refute it)?
>
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I am a CLEC operating in California west, and I collocate with verizon.
Yes, Verizon is proposing to sell it's wireline assets to Frontier and
become effectively an all-wireless carrier.
Frontier is going to get a patchwork of ancient switches and poorly
maintained outside plant, in rural areas that would require tens of
millions of dollars in upgrades for sparely populaed areas it could
never turn a profit on. I seriously wonder about the viability of taking
on the debt to get those areas and even just maintain them, vz itself
has done a very poor job and it presently operates a network where E911
routinely fails along with pots for many, for weeks at a time. And
somehow, Verizon has been allowed to skate along without being held to
the fire for it's mandated utility / carrier of last resort obligations.
I worry that Frontier, with all the new added debt obligations, will not
able to swallow this pill.
Mike-
