FairPoint Communications is a provider of communications services in rural and small urban communities in the U.S., providing an array of services including local and...
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Simon Flannery - Morgan Stanley. Simon Flannery - Morgan Stanley I wanted to get some more clarification around the degree of marketing activity, both by Verizon and by competitors. You mentioned that there was some cable...
Earnings Call ExcerptFairPoint Communications, Inc. FRP Q4 2007 Earnings Call February 28, 2008 8:30 am ET Executives Brett Ellis – Investor Relations Eugene B. Johnson – Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer John P. Crowley – Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President Presentation Operator...
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instruction Your first question comes from the line of Jonathan Chaplin. Jonathan Chaplin - JP Morgan Good morning, guys. Thanks for taking the question. I am wondering if you can give us a quick update of what the access line DSL trends were in the...
Rebecca Engmann Darst co-authored this article. Lehman Brothers LEH – Implied volatility in Lehman Brothers options rose 39.5% to 173.3% after analysts at Merrill Lynch widened their loss estimate for the bank, sending shares down 17% to $13.34 and once again dangling the broken brokerage to within a dollar and...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FairPoint Communications, Inc. today announced it will present at the Deutsche Bank Sixteenth Annual Leveraged Finance Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona on Thursday, September 25th at 1:30 p.m. local Arizona time, or 4:30 p.m. EDT. Representing FairPoint will be Al Giammarino, executive vice...
Conference Call and Web Broadcast Details Released CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FairPoint Communications, Inc. today announced that it will release its 2008 second quarter financial results at 4:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday, August 7, 2008. The Company will hold its earnings conference call at...
John P. Crowley Resigns to Join International Financial Firm Lisa R. Hood Named Acting CFO CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FairPoint Communications, Inc. today announced that John Crowley, executive vice president and Chief Financial Officer CFO, has tendered his resignation effective August 15,...
Neil Giarratana could have lived anywhere in the United States. In 1999, he and his wife, with a newborn born in the crib, undertook a nationwide search to find the "perfect place to raise their family," he says. Giarratana had grown up in Northern Virginia and as an adult...
Completed Merger and Successful Integration of Former Verizon Employees CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FairPoint Communications, Inc. ("FairPoint" or the "Company"), a leading provider of communications services to urban communities across the country, today announced its financial results for its first quarter ended March 31,...
FairPoint to Discuss Verizon Integration CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FairPoint Communications, Inc. , a leading provider of communications services to communities across the country, today announced that the Company will webcast its 2008 investor day presentation being hosted on May 22, 2008 beginning at 8:00...
Conference call and web broadcast details released CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FairPoint Communications, Inc. announced today that it will release its 2008 first quarter financial results at 6:30 a.m. EDT on Friday, May 16, 2008. The Company will hold its earnings conference call at...
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Investors, Brett Ellis, +1-866-377-3747,bellis@fairpoint.com, Media, Rose B. Cummings, +1-704-602-7304,rcummings@fairpoint.com, both of FairPoint Communications, Inc. PORTLAND, Maine, March 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FairPointCommunications, Inc. (NYSE: FRP) today announced it has reachedtentative agreements with the T-9 Council of the InternationalBrotherhood of Electrical Workers IBEW and Communications Workersof America...
CHICAGO -- Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'BB-' Issuer Default Rating IDR to FairPoint Communications, Inc. FairPoint. In addition, Fitch has assigned a 'BB+' rating to FairPoint's $2.03 billion in secured bank credit facilities and a 'BB-' rating to its proposed $540 million senior unsecured notes. The Rating Outlook is...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FairPoint Communications, Inc., or FairPoint announced today the commencement of an offering of $540 million in aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes due 2018 of Northern New England Spinco Inc. ("Spinco"), a subsidiary of Verizon Communications Inc. ("Verizon") that will be merged...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Board of Directors of FairPoint Communications, Inc. decided to extend the employment of Eugene B. Johnson as chief executive officer of FairPoint Communications for an additional year. The current employment agreement expires December 31, 2008. The extension of Johnson's employment is...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Board of Directors of FairPoint Communications, Inc. today declared a contingent dividend of $0.39781 per share on FairPoint's common stock. This dividend will be payable on April 16, 2008 to stockholders of record at the close of business on March...
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M2 PRESSWIRE-29 February 2008-NYSENEWS: Progressive Following on Fairpoint Communications IncC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:29022008 InvestorIM has been created as a tool for the average investor. The idea is simple, a website where the world can communicate. Do you have a...
M2 PRESSWIRE-28 February 2008-Streetinvesting.com: Progressive Following on Fairpoint Communications IncC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:28022008 Streetinvesting.com has now resumed our progressive review of Fairpoint Communications Inc (NYSE:FRP) after it traded down 0.03 Thursday, early in the morning, with below-average...