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Re: Fibre provider in Starkville, MS


From: John Von Essen <john () essenz com>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 09:56:07 -0400

I just took a wholesale circuit from Windstream, it was fine - the provisioning/delivery portion was within the Chapter 
11 timeline. The Chapter 11 thing, if you read about it, isn’t really because they are going bankrupt, it's more to 
protect them from a pending lawsuit from a hedge fund (Aurelius Capital) “if” the hedge fund wins in court. The hedge 
fun did initially win, but Windstream is appealing, if they lose the appeal, the Chapter 11 protection will prevent the 
hedge fund from gutting Windstream dry, which they would happily do! 

It all has to do with the fact that the hedge fund was unhappy that Windstream spin-off assets into Uniti Fiber, i.e. 
rich people upset about not making “enough” money from a deal.

-John

On May 6, 2019, at 9:46 AM, Marshall, Quincy <Quincy.Marshall () reged com> wrote:

-------- Original message --------
From: Mehmet Akcin
Date: 5/6/19 09:02 (GMT-05:00)
To: Theo Voss
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Fibre provider in Starkville, MS

"hi Theo,

Looks like Earthlink (now Windstream) has fiber there. You can visit www.infrapedia.com <http://www.infrapedia.com/> 
to look at what is available.

<snipped>"


Hasn't windstream filed for Chapter 11/13 protection? Not certain that's the best choice. 

LQ Marshall





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