FairPoint Communications Inc. has hired computer networking leader Cisco Systems Inc. to help expand broadband Internet access across northern New England.
FairPoint said Cisco will be a primary provider for a state-of-the-art Internet Protocol network. Financial terms were not announced.
North Carolina-based FairPoint bought Verizon Communications Inc.’s landline telephone and Internet business in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont for $2.3 billion in March. Service is to be switched over in November.