PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Shareholders of telecommunications companies Consolidated Communications and FairPoint Communications voted on Tuesday to approve a proposed merger. Consolidated announced in ...

Once upon a time, businesses received telephone service from one phone company, an entity not always lovingly referred to as “Ma Bell.” But when FairPoint Communications closed the deal to buy Verizon ...

Days after a statewide 911 outage, the Vermont Department of Public Service has asked the Vermont Public Service Board to investigate the “adequacy,’ of FairPoint Communications’ service, following ...

A group of former FairPoint Communications creditors has filed suit against Verizon Communications, charging that the giant telecom is to blame for FairPoint’s bankruptcy and continued financial ...

MONTPELIER -- Fed-up regulators opened a probe Monday into whether to revoke FairPoint Communications' right to do business in Vermont, grilling its president about customer service problems and ...

PORTLAND, Maine -- FairPoint Communications Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday barely 18 months after becoming northern New England's dominant telecommunications company, ...

WEBVTT A STRIKE AT FAIRPOINT IS NOW IN MONTH NUMBER FIVE, AND A LOT OF CUSTOMERS HAVE DEALT WITH OUTLANDISH SERVICE DELAYS AND ARE GETTING INCREASINGLY FED UP. TONIGHT, ADAM SEXTON EXAMINES WHY STATE ...

FairPoint Communications is no stranger to Maine. Though based in Charlotte, N.C., the telecommunications company has served several rural communities in Maine for years through six local telephone ...

At Friday’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) hearing in Concord, NH, politicians were looking for someone to blame for FairPoint’s poor customer service since cutting over to its new information ...