Executive Vice President: Frontier Video Launch Planned This Year

Frontier Communications expects to begin offering a “linear video” service this year, said John Jureller, Frontier executive vice president and chief financial officer. Advances in compression technology and in server architecture and technology have now made such an offering more feasible, he said. Frontier has offered video in areas that it acquired from AT&T and Verizon using platforms developed by those companies for some time, so apparently Jureller’s reference was to areas outside of those territories. Outside the former AT&T and Verizon territories Frontier until now has relied on a partnership with Dish Network for video. Having its own linear video offering will better position Frontier to offer triple play services, Jureller said. “It will be great from a customer [acquisition] and customer retention perspective,” he commented.