Frontier continues to expand broadband in former AT&T, Verizon territories

Frontier Communications said in an Federal Communications Commission filing that it is on track with the broadband expansions it promised to make when it purchased Verizon's rural assets in 2010 and AT&T's Connecticut wireline assets in 2014. In the Verizon territories it acquired, some of the expansion progress can be clearly seen in areas like California, Washington and West Virginia where broadband was once only available in a small part of each state. This was because the areas they served were remote and were hard to build a business case to invest in equipment to deliver service.

When it purchased the Verizon rural assets in 2010, Frontier gained 12 telephone exchanges in California, serving about 17,700 households. Out of those 12 exchanges, Frontier said that at the time it purchased the assets, broadband was only deployed in one of the 12 exchanges. Over the past five years, Frontier wrote in an FCC filing, it has made broadband "available to over 14,700 households, or 82 percent of households in those acquired exchanges."