Consumer Counsel Urges Connecticut No on Frontier Reorg
Connecticut “must deny” Frontier Communications’ bankruptcy reorganization application “as a matter of law,” the state’s Office of Consumer Counsel said in a Monday brief at the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority in docket 20-04-31. Connecticut Attorney General William Tong (D) advised…
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the same (see 2011230055). Denial could leave Frontier “customers, employees, and pensioners in an undesirable situation,” but approving it “without absolute, strong and enforceable conditions” would probably perpetuate “the operation of an antiquated telephone network that may be partially retrofitted to provide adequate services to select customers in areas chosen by Frontier’s management, who may or may not continue to be housed within Connecticut,” OCC said. “Despite this conundrum, the Applicants have failed to meet their burden of proof on any front.” Communications Workers of America suggested conditions requiring certain levels of Connecticut jobs, investment and service quality. Urging speedy OK, Frontier said it “made every effort to provide all of the information necessary for the Authority to evaluate the proposed change in control in a thorough and comprehensive manner.”