CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s Executive Council is set to debate a $13 million state contract with FairPoint Communications as the company’s Northern New England workers continue to strike over contract negotiations.
The five-member council will debate the contract at Tuesday’s meeting. If the contract is approved, FairPoint would provide telephone and Internet services for the state through 2020. Four other companies also bid on the contract.
FairPoint is facing questions about its ability to provide adequate services while 1,700 workers in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire are on strike.
Some residents and towns have lost phone service during the strike and the state’s Public Utilities Commission has received more complaints than normal about FairPoint’s service. The company says some of the outages were due to winter storms.
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