Fairpoint and Creepy Politics?
Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 08:21AM By Richard H. Olson, Jaffrey NH
Well, FairPoint Communications Corp. has officially taken over Verizon’s “land lines” and DSL services. I sided with New Hampshire ’s Consumer Advocate and the Chair of New Hampshire’s Public Utilities Commission and said that it was not a good fit for New Hampshire residents.
Promises! Promises! I just received my first bill from FairPoint and found out that they do not have a website that is capable of paying my phone or internet bill. I have a choice of using my bank’s “bill pay” or sending a paper check.
The explanation I received was that they needed time to set this up. Hmmmm! Wouldn’t you think that as “technology savvy” company like FairPoint was touted by supporters would already be “on line” to receive payments? After all, part of their deal depended on cash flow to support the acquisition and building the DSL network .
Creepy Politics?
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Reader Comments (3)
I'm hoping 802.11y will liberate us. But the US government seems to think they have the right to auction off that bandwidth.
Reference the US Constitution Amendment 10, and the New Hampshire Constitution part 1 article 10. The way I read it so long as the signals don't carry outside our state it's nobody's business what we do with the bandwidth.
It says: "Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind."
That you can read this to say NH controls some or all of the radio wave spectrum emanating in the ether within our borders marks you as a very interesting individual, to say the least. I would have interpreted this article quite differently.