FairPoint owes nearly $3M in fines
FairPoint owes nearly $3 million in penalties to phone carriers in New England for providing them with poor wholesale service in recent months. The company has asked the Maine Public Utilities Commission to waive the roughly $845,000 it owes to local phone carriers.
In filings to the PUC, FairPoint argues that waiving or modifying the payments will allow it to focus its resources on returning its faulty networks to normal operating levels, the Portland Press Herald reported. The fines in Maine are part of $2.8 million the company says it owes phone companies across New England for substandard service, according to the paper. FairPoint by law must open its networks to local competitors, and faces penalties for failing to meet certain standards for quality and timeliness of interconnections.
The competing dozen or so phone carriers in Maine, which service 150,000 customers here, are asking the PUC to throw out FairPoint's request, the paper reports. Since taking over Verizon landlines last February, the financially strapped company has struggled to restore regular service.
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