[BULK] Verizon exiting California

Fri Jul 31 15:00:31 UTC 2015

Well, I meant the VZB network. The landline network transaction is confirmed by their press release. 

Frontier knows what they're getting into. They bought our Verizon landline operations years ago. 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Mike" <mike-nanog at tiedyenetworks.com> 
To: nanog at nanog.org 
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 9:32:49 AM 
Subject: Re: [BULK] Verizon exiting California 

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- 