FairPoint provides local and long-distance phone services, as well as broadband Internet access and cable TV to residential and business customers. The company also offers phone and Internet packages for business customers. It serves about 1.6 million subscribers through more than 30 local-exchange carriers in 18 US states. FairPoint concentrates largely on rural and small urban markets located mainly in the Northeast and the Midwest, but the company's service areas extend to the South and the Northwest. FairPoint emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in early 2011.