FairPoint Communications Security Rating

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Industry Telecommunications
Footprint 20.2K IPs
Followers Monitored by 44 companies
Year founded 1991
Employees 1.1K

FairPoint Communications, Inc. provides advanced data, voice and video technologies to single and multi-site businesses, public and private institutions, consumers, wireless companies and wholesale re-sellers in 17 states. Leveraging an owned, fiber-core Ethernet network - including more than 16,000 route miles of fiber in northern New England - FairPoint has the network coverage, scalable bandwidth and transport capacity to support enhanced applications, including the next generation of mobile and cloud-based communications, such as small cell wireless backhaul technology, voice over IP, data center colocation services, managed services and disaster recovery. FairPoint is traded on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol FRP.

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