And I found it by accident, buried in Yahoo! Finance, and not on any local site:
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/040521/telecoms_verizon_1.htmlCHICAGO (Reuters) - Private Equity firm Carlyle Group agreed to buy the Hawaiian wireline assets of Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ - News) for about $1.65 billion in cash, the No. 1 U.S. telephone company said on Friday....
The deal is expected to close next year, contingent on regulatory approvals. In addition, Washington-based Carlyle has obtained financing commitments, and the closing of that financing is a condition of the accord.
The agreement includes the equity of Verizon Hawaii Inc., which operates 707,000 local access lines, as well as the services and assets of Verizon's long distance, online and directory publishing businesses there. Last year, those businesses had sales of $610 million and operating income of $58 million....
A new name for the assets will be announced at a later date.May I suggest the following:
"Dial 'M' for Murder"
"1-800-BUSH-SUX"
"Global Domination Tel: Free calling to all 47 countries occupied by a Carlyle subsidiary!!"
Is there any way to make them stop, like informing the (spineless) PUC that our monopoly phone company is about to fall into the hands of shady international arms dealers bent on world domination?!
:grr: :grr: :nuke:
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