{"id":985919,"date":"2026-01-17T08:10:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985919"},"modified":"2026-01-17T08:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:49:11","slug":"california-approves-verizon-acquisition-of-frontier-clearing-way-for-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/17\/california-approves-verizon-acquisition-of-frontier-clearing-way-for-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"California approves Verizon acquisition of Frontier, clearing way for closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday approved Verizon Communications&#8217; $20 billion deal to acquire fiber-optic \u2060internet providers Frontier Communications, clearing the way for the deal to close on Tuesday after Verizon agreed to a series of conditions. <\/p>\n<p>California state regulators said Verizon committed to investing in 75,000 new fiber locations and building 25 \u200cnew wireless towers to \u200cexpand service in rural areas in the state. The company also agreed to additional broadband-deployment requirements and to provide free \u200cbroadband service to many low-income households in the state for at least 10 years. The approval was the final needed for the deal to close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday approved Verizon Communications&#8217; $20 billion deal to acquire fiber-optic \u2060internet providers Frontier Communications, clearing the way for the deal to close on Tuesday after Verizon agreed to a series of conditions. California state regulators said Verizon committed to investing in 75,000 new fiber locations and building 25 \u200cnew wireless towers to \u200cexpand service in rural areas in the state. The company also agreed to additional broadband-deployment requirements and to provide free \u200cbroadband service to many low-income households in the state for at least 10 years. The approval was the final needed for the [&hellip;]<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985919","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=985919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}