Three phone companies have asked the California Public Utilities Commission...
Three phone companies have asked the California Public Utilities Commission for permission to consolidate two of the companies into one. Frontier Communications Southwest, Frontier Communications West Coast and Citizens Telecom Co. of California (also known as Frontier California) are all…
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separate ILECs, legally speaking, in the state, according to its petition posted Wednesday (http://xrl.us/bn77ud). But they're requesting permission for Frontier West Coast and Frontier California to merge “to order to increase operational efficiencies and ... to operate under a consistent regulatory format,” they said. The proposed merger wouldn’t include Frontier Southwest due to its “multi-state legal structure,” the petition said. Petitioners promise “synergies and savings,” among other benefits: “Once the merger is complete, the additional exchanges current served by Frontier-West Coast would become open to the same level of local wireline competition as Frontier-California, pursuant to the FCC’s and the Commission’s local competition rules,” they added. Frontier West Coast has 9,350 access lines and Frontier California 113,300, the petition said.