The ink may be barely dry on nTelos’ (NASDAQ: NTLS) bid to acquire competitive provider FiberNet in its West Virginia home state, but already incumbent carrier Frontier (NYSE: FTR) wants conditions placed on the deal. When Frontier wrapped its acquisition of Verizon’s rural lines in July, it not only became West Virginia’s largest service provider [...]
Frontier’s (NYSE: FTR) mandate that union employees in its West Virginia have to work an average 70 hours work week to resolve lingering network and service issues is likely a move by the service provider to avoid the pitfalls that both Fairpoint (Other OTC: FRCMQ.PK) and Hawaiian Telecom faced after they purchased Verizon’s (NYSE:VZ) lines. West [...]