RURAL AMERICA IS BEING LEFT OFF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY
[SOURCE: AlterNet, AUTHOR: Steve early, The Nation]
[Commentary] Verizon's proposed plan of a $2.7 billion transfer of local access
lines to FairPoint Communications -- a small, largely nonunion North Carolina
firm -- is part of a nationwide trend toward rural telecom redlining.
"FairPoint, a highly leveraged company, will have great difficulty meeting the
big dividend and debt commitments it has made as part of this purchase, while
simultaneously investing enough to maintain current facilities, improve service
quality and expand broadband availability," argues Kenneth Peres, research
economist for the Communications Workers of America (CWA). As Peres points out
in the union's April 27 petition to the Federal Communications Commission
opposing the sale, "FairPoint plans to expend less capital on network
infrastructure than was previously spent by Verizon."
http://www.alternet.org/story/51946/
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