FairPoint Communications, Inc. provides communication services to residential and business customers in rural and small urban communities primarily in northern New England. It offers an array of services, including local and long distance voice, high speed data (HSD), Internet access, and television and broadband product offerings. The company also engages in the provision of network access to interexchange carriers; and enhanced services, such as call waiting, call forwarding and transferring, three-way calling, automatic callback, call hold, caller name and number identification, voice mail, teleconferencing, video conferencing, store-and-forward fax, follow-me numbers, Centrex services, and direct inward dial. In addition, it provides billing and collection, and directory services; offers video services to its customers by reselling DirectTV content and providing cable and Internet Protocol television video over digital subscriber line (DSL); and sells and maintains customer premise equipment. As of December 31, 2010, the company operated approximately 1.4 million access line equivalents, including voice access lines and HSD lines, which comprise DSL, wireless broadband, cable modem, and fiber-to-the-premises. FairPoint Communications, Inc. is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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