FairPoint Communications today outlined the timeline relating to its systems cutover in northern New England. That follows the company’s acquisition last March of Verizon Communications' wireline operations in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
Beginning last Friday, Verizon began to extract data from its 600-plus legacy systems and transfer that data to FairPoint to be imported into approximately 60 new, state-of-the-art, fully-integrated systems. FairPoint anticipates the systems cutover process will take approximately nine days and that FairPoint will be independently operating on its new systems beginning on Feb. 9.
