W.Va. PSC Clears Frontier Bankruptcy Reorg
Frontier Communications got West Virginia's OK of its bankruptcy reorganization, with conditions. The Public Service Commission cleared a Dec. 18 settlement Friday with PSC staff, the agency’s Consumer Advocate Division and Communications Workers of America. The telco promised to spend…
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$200 million by Dec. 31 in West Virginia and deploy fiber to 150,000 locations. Another Friday order required service quality reporting in response to a state audit in case 18-0291-T-P (see 2008060027). That will help the company “correct its course as necessary to assure improved quality service to its customers and improved relations with its employees,” it said. PSC Chairman Charlotte Lane said the orders “allow Frontier to proceed with its bankruptcy reorganization, emerge a stronger corporate structure and make much needed investments in West Virginia’s internet infrastructure.” The carrier got FCC clearance Thursday and needs OK from California, Connecticut and Pennsylvania commissions. Don’t let California get a better deal than West Virginia, the West Virginia Broadband Enhancement Council wrote the PSC earlier Friday in docket 20-0400-T-PC. "West Virginia has been on the receiving end of empty promises in the past and we ask that the Commission exercise its jurisdiction to the fullest extent allowed.” The telco made fiber promises to states that waited to clear the bankrupt carrier's reorganization, including fiber to 150,000 West Virginia locations and 350,000 California locations (see 2101140032).