Frontier Communications said it reached an agreement with...
Frontier Communications said it reached an agreement with Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen and the Office of Consumer Counsel (OCC) on conditions for the telco’s proposed purchase of AT&T’s wireline assets, U-verse video and satellite operations in Connecticut, which it…
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said would “guarantee customer and community benefits resulting” from the deal. Frontier agreed not to increase the basic primary residential rates for affected assets for at least 36 months following the deal’s closing and agreed to offer its basic broadband and stand-alone basic broadband services in Connecticut at or below its current prices, it said Tuesday. The telco agreed to invest $63 million between 2015 and 2017 on broadband improvements in Connecticut. Frontier also agreed to accelerate its inspection of AT&T facilities it’s acquiring as part of the deal and committed to continued outreach to Connecticut veterans at targeted job fairs and through the federal Department of Veterans Affairs to improve adoption of the VA’s myHealtheVet and home Telehealth programs. Frontier will also collaborate with the state attorney general’s office and the OCC on ways to reach low-income veterans to provide subsidized broadband service (http://1.usa.gov/1oIWcRa). The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority still needs to approve the deal, which federal regulators have already cleared.