FairPoint files bankruptcy
Debt sinks phone company after Verizon acquisition
Posted: October 27, 2009 at 3:57 a.m.
Fair-Point Communications Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday barely 18 months after becoming northern New England’s dominant telecommunications company, fulfilling critics’ predictions that the company wasn’t up to the task.
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