Comments on: What’s Wrong with this Picture? Fairpoint, USF, and Vermont http://gordoncook.net/wp/?p=193 Helping Communities Build Bridges to 21st Century Communication Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:26:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Stephen Otter Holmes http://gordoncook.net/wp/?p=193#comment-44007 Stephen Otter Holmes Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:58:38 +0000 http://gordoncook.net/wp/?p=193#comment-44007 I am glad to see that there are folks out there, or should I say on here, who truly understand the implications of the Verizon to Fairpoint sale. Thank you for posting my reference to the Randy Barber testimony. I have been participating with others on a grassroots website titled verizonvsfairpoint.com . I encourage all folks with an interest in this matter to visit that site, as there are some very interesting posts (not just my own - heh). Kudos on your website by the way! An added note regarding USF abuse. Fairpoint not only lines their dividend pockets with USF, word has it that they are lobbying to get the rules changed to increase their cut of the USF pie. They must start every day with a movie clip of Michael Douglas saying "greed is good". As a matter of proper disclosure etticate, I will state that I am an ex-employee of Fairpoint, and a recovering accountant. I am glad to see that there are folks out there, or should I say on here, who truly understand the implications of the Verizon to Fairpoint sale. Thank you for posting my reference to the Randy Barber testimony. I have been participating with others on a grassroots website titled verizonvsfairpoint.com . I encourage all folks with an interest in this matter to visit that site, as there are some very interesting posts (not just my own - heh). Kudos on your website by the way! An added note regarding USF abuse. Fairpoint not only lines their dividend pockets with USF, word has it that they are lobbying to get the rules changed to increase their cut of the USF pie. They must start every day with a movie clip of Michael Douglas saying “greed is good”.
As a matter of proper disclosure etticate, I will state that I am an ex-employee of Fairpoint, and a recovering accountant.

]]> By: Karl Bode http://gordoncook.net/wp/?p=193#comment-43581 Karl Bode Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:32:14 +0000 http://gordoncook.net/wp/?p=193#comment-43581 Still digesting this, but is this $1.7 billion in addition to the $600 million in tax savings from the process? http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&ItemID=12866 Still digesting this, but is this $1.7 billion in addition to the $600 million in tax savings from the process?

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&ItemID=12866

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