Fibre provider in Starkville, MS

Mon May 6 14:24:11 UTC 2019

Yeah, I wouldn't worry about the services themselves. This is all legal
maneuvering due to the financial engineering that was being done.

They won't be going dark or anything. Absolutely worst case they may have
to sell some markets off to another carrier, but IF that gets there it's
many years away anyways.

On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 9:58 AM John Von Essen <john at essenz.com> wrote:

> 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 at reged.com>
> wrote:
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Mehmet Akcin
> Date: 5/6/19 09:02 (GMT-05:00)
> To: Theo Voss
> Cc: nanog at 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 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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