FairPoint Communications

Based in Charlotte, N.C., FairPoint’s largest customer base comes from the northern New England area that includes Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. The company entered the region in 2008 when it purchased Northern New England Spinco, a landline business previously owned by Verizon, for $2.4bn.

FairPoint claims to own northern New England’s largest fiber network – a fiber-core Ethernet with more than 16,000 route-miles in the region that offers speeds up to 1 Gbps.