FCC Okays Sale of 4.8 Million Verizon Lines to Frontier

摘要

The FCC approved Verizon's sale of 4.8 million phone lines to Frontier. The deal will bring n"broadband to millions of consumers and small businesses and anchor institutions in 14 nstates," the commission said. Commitments that Frontier made to win approval include new ndeployment of broadband service that provides at least 1 Mbps upstream and reporting to the nFCC "at an unprecedented level of detail," the commission said. Frontier made 29 ncommitments, including going to the FCC and the regulatory commissions of any states naffected for approval of plans to switch from an operations support system transferred from nVerizon within three years of the closing.