Frontier Communications says the company is introducing a new 100 Mbps down, 10 Mbps up tier in the Connecticut markets the telco acquired from AT&T. Frontier CEO Daniel McCarthy confirmed the plans on the company's earnings call, but the telco has yet to reveal pricing for the new service.
However, users in our
forums say reps are telling them the 100 Mbps tier will cost $65 a month with auto-pay enabled, or $70 a month without. There's also an optional one year contract that includes a year of Amazon Prime.
This all assumes you can get it. The 100 Mbps speed will undoubtedly be only available to users with ultra-short loop lengths, though the exact distance limitations have yet to be revealed.
The 100 Mbps deployment comes as the company recently reported a $5 million drop in revenues in the acquired territory.
"We're rolling out 100-meg over copper product in Connecticut, and we feel very good that we'll be able to change the trends in the parts of Connecticut that AT&T had not upgraded historically," McCarthy said during the earnings call, according to a Seeking Alpha transcript. "And we should have a nice opportunity going forward."
As part of the merger conditions Frontier also said it will be spending $63 million to expand U-Verse in the state. Sort of. Technically, Frontier's only obligated to bring speeds of 10 Mbps to an additional 100,000 homes, something the telco says is on schedule.
"We're in the process of upgrading the areas that are non U-verse today in many parts of the state," McCarthy said. "As you may recall from the approval docket, we had promised to upgrade 100,000 homes in Connecticut so we are moving forward with that right now."