Frontier has won a contract to provide technical support to Intuit, developer of QuickBooks software, said Frontier CEO Maggie Wilderotter at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia Conference in New York today. Frontier won the contract after a six-month trial period, during which the company’s performance exceeded...
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With the help of a $1.5 million grant for the Illinois Gigabit Communities Challenge, Frontier Communications will build a Gigabit FTTH network in Carbondale, Illinois. The City of Carbondale, Connect SI, Frontier, and Southern Illinois University, which is based in Carbondale, will partner for this...
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This year’s Connect America Fund program aimed at helping to cover some of the costs of bringing broadband to areas that currently do not have broadband service garnered a considerably more positive response than a similar program did last year. Based on input Telecompetitor has...
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STAMFORD, CT – June 24, 2013 — Frontier Communications (NASDAQ: FTR) announced that Frontier Secure now offers residential and small business customers comprehensive equipment protection through Asurion, the leading global technology protection company. Frontier Secure protects customers’ digital lives through a suite of services that...
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Frontier has a new marketing campaign, centered around a “6 feet tall, 8 feet long and 2,000 pound” Buffalo named Frank. The tier 2 telco with extensive rural markets says the campaign will begin immediately and will include broadcast, print, digital and social media, billboards,...
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CenturyLink, Frontier and Windstream made another attempt Friday to persuade the FCC to release Phase 1 Connect America Funds for broadband construction projects in rural areas that currently do not have broadband service. The carriers are now offering to match whatever funding the commission releases...
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STAMFORD, CT- April 15, 2013 – Frontier Secure, a service of Frontier Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: FTR), now offers unlimited phone support to consumers nationwide 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. A 100 percent U.S.-based team of certified experts is...
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BASKING RIDGE, NJ – April 1, 2013 — Verizon Wireless has completed its purchase of partnership interests in Mohave Cellular Limited Partnership (“Mohave Wireless”) from Frontier Communications and Rio Virgin Telephone. Verizon Wireless now owns 100 percent of Mohave Wireless. Financial terms are not being...
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Frontier introduced a new broadband promotion that offers a no contract $19.99 broadband service, with a three year price lock, provided customers also subscribe to Frontier phone service. The promotion basically knocks $10 off of Frontier’s entry level broadband product for agreeing to a phone...
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Frontier is getting serious about the Carrier Ethernet wholesale opportunity, today announcing its first broadly available wholesale Carrier Ethernet service, which will be a best-effort Ethernet virtual private line (EVPL) offering dubbed EVPL Silver. In an interview, Frontier executive Lisa R. Partridge told Telecompetitor that...
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January 17, 2013 — MARION, Ohio–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Frontier Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: FTR), the largest provider of communications services focused on rural America, today announced the availability of natural gas and electricity in Ohio through FTR Energy Services. Customers will experience the same billing and the same...
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STAMFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Frontier Communications (NASDAQ: FTR), the nation’s largest communications provider focused on rural America, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with TRG Customer Solutions to offer three Frontier Secure products: comprehensive computer security; cloud-based unlimited backup and sharing; and proactive identity...
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