WUTC staff reverses position on Frontier’s bid for Verizon phone lines

Frontier Communications, which wants to buy Verizon’s landline-telephone business in this and 13 other states, has agreed to hold residential-telephone rates steady for three years and invest $40 million in expanded high-speed Internet access as part of a package of concessions aimed at winning approval from the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission.

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