Verizon selling California (non-wireless) phone operations (and much more)
(Ars Technica): http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/verizon-sells-three-state-territory-including-1-6-million-fios-users/ Verizon is selling off a big chunk of its wireline customer base, and it's not just the old copper wires that are being separated from the mothership. In a $10.54 billion sale announced today, Frontier will take over a three-state territory covering millions of Verizon customers. "The operations Frontier will acquire consist of all of Verizon's local wireline operating territories in California, Florida and Texas," Verizon's announcement said. "At the end of fourth-quarter 2014, these operations served approximately 3.7 million voice connections; approximately 2.2 million high-speed data customers, including approximately 1.6 million FiOS Internet customers; and approximately 1.2 million FiOS Video customers." - - - This by the way includes scattered service areas here in the L.A. region: West L.A. (including UCLA), Santa Monica, much of Culver City, Malibu, and a variety of points to the south. It's like Verizon returning to its roots as the "we don't care about customers" General Telephone where they began! --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
