said by Karl Bode:Stock bump aside, they get a huge influx of customers, most of whom are in uncompetitive markets and can't leave you even if you really suck at what you do. Who wouldn't want that?
The problem has been these carriers eyes are bigger than their stomachs and they've underestimated the impact on customer support and the technical hurdles of system integration...
If the PUC's involved allow for the higher prices that need to be charged to make this work(i.e. fix and improve the long ignored infrastructure) from the get go, then this would go much better than the Frontier deal.