provides communication services to residential and business customers in rural communities in the United States.
The company offers local and long distance voice, data, Internet, and broadband services, as well as various enhanced services, such as call waiting, call forwarding and transferring, call hunting, 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 offers directory services, including white page listings, yellow page listings, and community information listings, as well as billing and collection services.
FairPoint Communications had approximately 272,691 access line equivalents in 17 states, as of February 3, 2005.
The company was co-founded by Eugene B.
Johnson and Daniel G.
Bergstein in 1991.
The company was formerly known as MJD Communications, Inc.
and changed its name to FairPoint Communications, Inc.
in 2000.
FairPoint Communications is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
