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Testimony of Randy Barber

Testimony of Randy Barber

On Behalf of

Communciations Workers of America
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Before
State of Vermont
Senate, Committee on Economic Development,
Housing, and General Affairs
House Committee on Commerce

on the Proposed Sale of Verizon Vermont to FairPoint Communications

You Make the Call: High Speed Broadband for All or Tax Loopholes for Verizon?

Verizon's savings from tax loophole in FairPoint deal would fund high-speed Internet throughout Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, new report finds

download the report here

Contact your State Legislators and tell them to "Stop the Sale!"

Maine residents click here

New Hampshire residents click here

Vermont residents click here 

Vermont House passes resolution calling for careful consideration of Verizon/FairPoint deal

The Vermont House of Representatives passed a resolution on 2/8/08 to be sent to the Public Service Board. 

After thirteen "Whereas" statements, the final Whereas says,"Whereas, at a recent hearing of the committee on commerce, a financial analyst representing the CWA and the IBEW testified that the revised financial arrangements, which lower the proposed debt that FairPoint Communications will incur, would still jeopardize the company's work force and their long term economic livelihood, now therefore be it

FairPoint wants to offer HD broadband in state [NH Union Leader]

By DENIS PAISTE
New Hampshire Union Leader Staff

CONCORD – FairPoint Communications could begin offering 145-channel, high-definition television over broadband Internet in New Hampshire within two years, President Peter Nixon said yesterday.

FairPoint agrees to share info [Concord Monitor]

Public access to documents unclear; review criteria hazy

By KATE DAVIDSON
Monitor staff

FairPoint Communications has agreed to provide dozens of documents to utility regulators that Verizon has never been required to submit - including reports on its workforce, service quality, broadband expansion and finances - if it is allowed to take over phone service in the state. But it appears not all of the reports will be available to the public, and it was unclear yesterday how, and by whom, the reports would be scrutinized.

E-mail users' transition should be a bit easier [Nashua Telegraph]

By DAVID BROOKS Telegraph Staff

The possibility that FairPoint will take over Verizon's Internet service in the state raises a question that always comes up online providers change hands:

What happens to e-mail addresses?

Lawyers for Verizon, union spar at hearing [Nashua Telegraph]

Tuesday was the last day of public testimony for, against FairPoint deal

By ASHLEY SMITH Telegraph Staff

CONCORD – A Verizon lawyer Tuesday urged New Hampshire utilities regulators not to believe the "sky-is-falling" scenario painted by a union about FairPoint's financial ability to become northern New England's telephone company.

Verizon deal debated in NH [Seacoast Online - Portsmouth Herald]

FairPoint: It will pay if goals are not met

CONCORD (AP) — If FairPoint Communications is allowed to take over Verizon's landline telephone service in New Hampshire, it has committed to expanding broadband Internet access, improving telephone service quality and fixing the state's deteriorating telephone network, FairPoint representatives testified at a hearing Monday.

Vermont Senate Economic Development Committee Hearing

Vermont Senate Economic Development Committee Hearing

 

By Scott M. Danzig, CWA Local 1400

 

Montpelier,