Frontier Meets With Commissioners on Broadband, Verizon Wireline Purchase
Frontier executives met with FCC Commissioners Michael O'Rielly, Ajit Pai and Jessica Rosenworcel plus Chairman Tom Wheeler Thursday to explain the company's broadband plans if its buy of Verizon's wireline services in California, Florida and Texas (see 1502050059) is approved,…
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said filings posted Tuesday in docket 15-44. Participants were Frontier CEO Dan McCarthy, Executive Chairwoman Maggie Wilderotter and Executive Vice President-External Affairs Kathleen Abernathy, herself a former FCC member, and the commissioners. According to the filings, the Frontier executives told of the company's plans for investment in broadband infrastructure and rural broadband expansion, and discussed Frontier's recent settlement with the Communications Workers of America (see 1507310059). They also told the commissioners of what they see as the consumer benefits the transaction could provide and expressed support for "modernizing" the FCC Lifeline program to include broadband, the filings said.