Frontier Communications
Frontier Communications former headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut | |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Predecessor | Public Utilities Consolidated Corporation |
| Founded | 1935 |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Area served | United States (25 states) |
Key people | Nick Jeffery (CEO) Scott Beasley (executive vice president & CFO) |
| Services | Local and long-distance telephone service, internet access, wireless internet access, digital phone, DISH satellite TV, fiber-optic internet, fiber-optic television |
| Revenue | US$6.41 billion (2021) |
| US$2.216 billion (2021) | |
| US$4.96 billion (2021) | |
| Total assets | US$16.481 billion (2021) |
| Total equity | US$4.796 billion (2022) |
Number of employees | 15,074 (2022) |
| Parent | Verizon |
| Subsidiaries | List of Frontier Communications operating companies |
| Website | www |
| Footnotes / references | |
Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. is an American telecommunications company. Known as Citizens Utilities Company until 2000, Citizens Communications Company until 2008, and Frontier Communications Corporation until 2020, as a communications provider with a fiber-optic network and cloud-based services, Frontier offers broadband internet, digital television, and computer technical support to residential and business customers in 25 states. In some areas it also offers home phone services.
It was incorporated in 1935 and based in Dallas, Texas, the company began focusing solely on telecommunications in 1999, selling its natural gas assets and utility operations. The company subsequently acquired companies such as Frontier Communications of Rochester as well as assets from Verizon Communications and AT&T. After filing for bankruptcy in 2020 and emerging from restructuring in 2021, Frontier went public again on May 4, 2021, on the NASDAQ. The company had around 3 million broadband subscribers and 485,000 video subscribers in 2021 and currently has a fiber optic network of 5.2 million locations.
In November 2024, the company's shareholders approved the sale of the company, for $20 billion, to Verizon Wireless, and in May 2025, the FCC approved the acquisition.