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Frontier: We Won't Be Expanding U-Verse Acquisitions

Earlier this month Frontier Communications announced it would be acquiring all of Verizon's fixed-line assets in California, Florida and Texas in a deal worth $10.5 billion. Before that, Frontier acquired all of AT&T's fixed-line assets in Connecticut in a deal worth $2 billion. If you're a former AT&T or Verizon customer in either of those territories hoping for next-gen upgrades, you may not want to hold your breath.

Discussing the AT&T deal this week, Frontier COO Daniel McCarthy stated that Frontier -- traditionally sluggish with next-gen upgrades -- won't be expanding U-Verse in Connecticut anytime soon:
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"We have no major plans to expand U-verse widely across the country but we do think that there [are] low cost alternatives in ways to leverage this system, the OSS, the content ingestion, the TV Everywhere, all of those components of it, to take advantage of all the broadband expansion and all the next-gen equipment that we've installed around the country, quite frankly," McCarthy said. "So you'll see us probably take a look at selectively trials in different markets but there is no wholesale expansion plans at this point."
You can be fairly certain that acquired FiOS markets won't be seeing deployment either, as Frontier's spent so much money saddling itself with debt to grow bigger, that actually improving the customer service or infrastructure in those markets will prove to be a difficult task. The fact Frontier won't be spending much likely makes investors happy, but customers looking to Frontier to improve their broadband fortunes may not like the end result.

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viperm
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viperm

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Thats why there are independent ISP's such as us to take those customers

We are a WISP and look forward to Verizon being sold. We have seen an influx of people already want our service as we are a local ISP and provide better service and are forward thinking unlike Frontier.

The problem is that WISPS such as ourselves run into so much red tape sometimes trying to service an area. There are ways around it sometimes but the bigger telcos don't want you in their areas even though they provide horrible service and the complain to the FTC or whoever to enforce the old laws to prevent competition.

Our customers are happy and our support is far better then any you will see from the big guys.

mitchell195
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Trumbull, CT
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Cisco Meraki MR16

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mitchell195

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Karl,
I hate to tell you but you have misquoted. Dan McCarthy was speaking about expansion outside the state of Connecticut, Frontier has repeatedly stated they are going to expand u-verse to at least 100,000 more homes in the state & I have seen evidence of that myself.