[RTC List] Potential Game Changer

[jankrpln at humboldt1.com]

This was  clearly coming.  The same thing happened several years ago for
the same reasons - Cox sold to Suddenlink to consolidate their more
profitable dense areas and sell rural and "island" locations.

To quote from yesterdays NYTimes article "The company [Verizon] says that
after the deal, only 15 percent of its revenue will come from residential
customers.  And 70 percent of those will be in neighborhoods where the
company is replacing its copper wires with fiber optic cables that carry
television, Internet service, and almost incidentally, voice calls over
the FiOS brand."

As an aside, my father was first chief engineer and later executive vice
president for General Telephone of California, GT&E, (the California side
of the merger that created Verizon) from 1958 to 1970.  He came from
Sweden after WWII as Ericson's U.S. company president to promote their
Ericofon (the one-piece phone that stood upright) and the crossbar
telephone switching system (no operator required).  For tose interested,
google Hans Kraepelien General Telephone and you'll see some of his work
on pricing theory as the industry began to see the changes coming. I
always miss not being able to talk with him about technology and social
changes.  He did get to see the Internet come into bloom though.

Jan


> Kevin,
>
> Just in case I didn't mention it before... The sale to Frontier does NOT
> include Verizon's wireless/cellular business. I think it is actually a
> separate business entity from the landline part of the company now. Either
> way, Verizon Wireless customers will be completely unaffected by the
> change.
>
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>
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 12:45 pm, Kevin Nelson wrote:
>> I think we must consider Verizon's experience in this area. The latest
>> tower they have tried to put up in Eureka cost them tens of thousands of
>> dollars in legal fees. This county is generally hostile to all "big"
>> business. Most of those dollars were spent making only lawyers wealthy,
>> not for the sake of Humboldt County.
>>
>>
>
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