[182758] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [BULK] Verizon exiting California
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Fri Jul 31 11:00:49 2015
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:00:31 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Well, I meant the VZB network. The landline network transaction is confirmed by their press release.
Frontier knows what they're getting into. They bought our Verizon landline operations years ago.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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From: "Mike" <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 9:32:49 AM
Subject: Re: [BULK] Verizon exiting California
On 07/31/2015 06:27 AM, Mike Hammett wrote:
> Can anyone else back that up (or refute it)?
>
>
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-
