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Bureaus Grant Petition for Transfer of Frontier Assets to Northwest Fiber

FCC Wireline, Wireless and International bureaus OK'd selling Frontier Communications' northwestern states telecom assets to Northwest Fiber. Thursday's order on docket 19-188 requires Frontier replicate operations support systems and offer OSS support for up to three years to help minimize…

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service disruptions. Consumer advocates hope the deal leads to better rural broadband (see 1910040023). The companies announced the $1.35 billion transaction in May (see 1905290042). DOJ weighed in because some Northwest Fiber owners aren't U.S. citizens (see 1907010037). FCC approval is conditioned on Northwest Fiber's following a letter of agreement with DOJ. The order doesn't adopt Montana Sky's requests (see 1908090024).