Re: [BULK] Verizon exiting California

[Mike <mike-nanog () tiedyenetworks com>]

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-