{"id":852419,"date":"2024-09-06T08:36:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T03:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=852419"},"modified":"2024-09-06T08:56:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T03:26:25","slug":"verizon-to-buy-frontier-in-20-bln-deal-to-boost-us-fiber-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/06\/verizon-to-buy-frontier-in-20-bln-deal-to-boost-us-fiber-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon to buy Frontier in $20 bln deal to boost US fiber network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon said on Thursday it will buy fiber-optic internet provider Frontier Communications in an all-cash deal worth $20 billion, as the US wireless carrier looks to grow its subscriber base. <\/p>\n<p>The deal will also help one of the biggest US network providers better compete against rivals AT&amp;T and T-Mobile as they double down on unlimited plans and bundling options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon said on Thursday it will buy fiber-optic internet provider Frontier Communications in an all-cash deal worth $20 billion, as the US wireless carrier looks to grow its subscriber base. The deal will also help one of the biggest US network providers better compete against rivals AT&amp;T and T-Mobile as they double down on unlimited plans and bundling options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}