Frontier's President and COO: We won't expand U-verse

Frontier Communications enhanced its video service capabilities when it purchased AT&T's Connecticut operations, a deal that gave it AT&T's U-verse platform, but for now Frontier has no immediate plans to expand it into new markets anytime soon. Daniel McCarthy, President and COO for Frontier, told investors that the service provider plans to see how it can leverage elements of the U-verse systems, including the operational support system, while conducting trials of U-verse in some markets.

"We have no major plans to expand U-verse widely across the country but we do think that there [are] low cost alternatives in ways to leverage this system, the OSS, the content ingestion, the TV Everywhere, all of those components of it, to take advantage of all the broadband expansion and all the next-gen equipment that we've installed around the country, quite frankly," McCarthy said. "So you'll see us probably take a look at selectively trials in different markets but there is no wholesale expansion plans at this point."