[PLUG-TALK] Frontier begone!

Keith Lofstrom keithl at kl-ic.com
Thu May 30 09:12:11 UTC 2019


Verizon Northwest wasn't bad for a telecom company; service
and pricing went to hell when they were bought by Frontier.

Mike Rogoway informs us that Frontier sold their northwest
operations to WaveDivision Capital and Searchlight Capital
Partners for $1.4 billion.  

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2019/05/frontier-communications-sells-operations-in-oregon-elsewhere-in-northwest-for-14-billion.html

It is way too early to tell whether they will restore good
service to their 350,000 customers in Oregon, Washington,
Idaho and Montana.  I hope so.  However, WaveDivision 
Capital (headquartered in Kirkland, WA) is associated with
Wave Broadband ... which has a lot of bad reviews on Yelp.

We switched from Frontier to Comcast Business, which has
been good to us, though slower.  We still have an unpowered
Verizon-installed optical network terminal in the garage,
and the incoming single-mode fiber is still attached.

We will probably stay with Comcast, but I hope the
competition expands price/performance/service options
for our neighbors (freeing more cable bandwidth for us).

Keith

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Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com



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