In its May 21 approval of the 4.8 million-line transfer from Verizon to Frontier, the FCC predicted that the ntransaction will bring "broadband to millions of consumers and small businesses and anchor institutions in 14 nstates." Frontier’s voluntary commitments include offering new broadband deployment with actual speeds of at nleast 1 Mbps upstream and providing the FCC with data on its deployment progress "at an unprecedented level of ndetail," the commission said in a news release. Both companies submitted letters listing voluntary commitments, an nFCC official said. "When parties file a list of conditions they commit to, it’s unusual for them to be changed," an-nother official said. The FCC approval came soon after West Virginia, the last state whose nod was required, gave nassent (see related stories this issue).
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