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Verizon Purchase Of Frontier Communications For $20 Billion Is Approved
May 19, 2025
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau approved Verizon’s $20 billion acquisition of Frontier.
Locally, Frontier is the traditional copper landline and DSL provider in Walnut Hill, Molino, Bratt, and Atmore.
Last September, Verizon agreed to buy Frontier for about $9.6 billion and absorb $10 billion in Frontier debt.
“By approving this deal, the FCC ensures that Americans will benefit from a series of good and common-sense wins,” FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said. “The transaction will unleash billions of dollars in new infrastructure builds in communities across the country—including rural America. This investment will accelerate the transition away from old, copper line networks to modern, high-speed ones.”
The FCC said Verizon will be able to upgrade and expand Frontier’s existing network in 25 states, bringing more fiber to more communities. Verizon’s new fiber deployments will enable the retirement of old copper networks, ensuring that more communities benefit from advanced technologies. Following the transaction, Verizon expects to deploy fiber to 1 million or more American homes annually.
Pictured: The Frontier Communications switching central office near Ernest Ward Middle School in Walnut Hill. NorthEscambia.com file photo, click to enlarge.
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3 Responses to “Verizon Purchase Of Frontier Communications For $20 Billion Is Approved”
Verizon is sneaky. I was a customer for many years. They know all the tricks. Keep an eye on your account and your phone usage. If it looks fishy…it is.
Frontier is the worst company I have ever dealt with.
Well, I’m not very excited. It will be one of those “wait and see” situations. Having worked in telecom and telephony myself for 20 years I can 100% bet ALL of our prices will be going up, I predict by $20 a month avg. Frontier has done nothing but gas light and lie to ALL of us for years and years. They have told me for years fiber was coming, “speeds would be faster just wait.”
Right now on average Frontier charges 10x the national average compared to other provider speeds. Other providers charge approx $100 a month for 1gb down and 500mb up. While Frontier charges $65 for 25mb down and 2mb up. So roughly $65 for 2% of the speeds other national providers offer. Frontier manipulated all of us because they knew us rural folk had no other options. Funny they bail out when Starlink has now started providing coverage over these rural areas. Starlink isn’t without its flaws, but for approx $40 more a month you can get 100x the speeds on average versus Frontier’s plans. Frontier saw the writing on the wall, bailed on all of it and never brought us the fiber they were promising for 10 years. Honestly, in conclusion, I don’t expect much more out of Verizon. They are going to charge us a ton for par service and we will be the very last to get any form of upgraded service and before that happens 5-10 more years from now who’s to say they won’t sell out to another corp. and the train kept a-rolling all night long…