Re: Hawaiian ILEC infrastructure and fire

["John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>]

According to Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>:
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> It's my understanding that the Hawaiian ILEC is now owned by Cincinnati
> Bell, which is also a unique historical artifact, as it was its own
> independent corporation/operating entity in the region of Cincinnati during
> the era of the pre-1984 Bell system.

Not that unique, SNET was also a Bell affiliate in most of Connecticut.

Hawaiian Tel has a very painful history. It was independent until
1967, then bought by GTE, then merged into Verizon along with the rest
of GTE in 2000, then sold to a hedge fund in 2004 which knew nothing
about telephony and ran it into bankruptcy, then an independent public
company from 2010 to 2017, when it was bought by Cincinnati Bell,
which in turn was bought in 2021 by Australian conglomerate Macquarie.

Running phone systems on islands is very expensive. There's only
160,000 people on Maui, about the same as Salinas CA, but separated
from the rest of the world by a lot of water.

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