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Darknessfall

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join:2012-08-17 Cisco DPC3008

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2 edits 6 recommendations Darknessfall Premium Member There's an important detail missing There's something missing in this news post and it's how Frontier worded all of this. You must take note that they promised the $9.99 internet only to those "provisioned" at/less than 1.5 Mbps. Many of the people having issues were likely having slow speeds due to poor/oversubscribed backhaul on all of this ignored Verizon equipment. I wouldn't be surprised if most of these customers are provisioned higher than 1.5 Mbps, but aren't receiving the proper speeds due to congested backhaul.



It also mentions that they will receive $9.99 until they're "provisioned" at 6 Mbps. Meaning, if they really wanted to be mean, they could just flip their provisioned rate to 6 Mbps and cause service/line stability problems then call it a day.



Basically, Frontier has a lot of ways out of this if they decide to back out.



WV is going to take a long time to upgrade and in some cases, it's not just worth the investment(compared to investing the money into other areas). I'm pretty sure Frontier isn't going to let $9.99 internet go by long enough to let the whole state become upgraded. On the other hand, who knows, maybe they'll end up holding more customers because of this and end up making more money off of POTS.



There was just something a little odd about this, it seemed like Frontier was a little too easy on the whole situation.

C0deZer0

Oc'D To Rhythm And Police

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join:2001-10-03

Tempe, AZ 6 recommendations C0deZer0 Premium Member And another 150m in rate hikes Just watch them try to uptick all their service rates and add more below-the-line fees to recoup on this...

Economist

The economy, stupid

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join:2015-07-10

united state 3 recommendations Economist Premium Member And sell billions in junk bonds (or the VZ purch) and pay 8+% dividends I have seen very few companies in the financial mess Frontier is in, yet they keep digging deeper and deeper. atigerman

join:2002-01-19

Tigerton, WI 2 recommendations atigerman Member That doesn't help me And with that, i just heard my future "coming soon" backhaul upgrade here in Wisconsin get flushed down the toilet.

Hank

Searching for a new Frontier

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join:2002-05-21

Burlington, WV ARRIS NVG443B

Ubiquiti NanoStation loco M2

2 recommendations Hank Premium Member A response from a WV customer! I think a lot of you have posted some very real issues/concerns/possibilities. The time line for the CAF II money is several years out, as stated directly to me by the local GM for our area. The 1.5Mbps is probably not going to affect a lot of West Virginians. I am not sure if this settles the class action suit or not. Reliability and stability, who will make the final determination? I'll hope for the best but like many of you have stated I am not going to expect a lot or expect it soon. smk11

join:2014-11-12 2 recommendations smk11 Member $150M to fix 28,000 customer lines from 1.5Mbps to 6Mbps. "Frontier agrees to make a total of at least $150 million in capital expenditures in

West Virginia over a period of three years, in addition to the investments during this period from

the $180 million Frontier expects to expend from the Connect America Fund II. This $150

million in capital expenditures will, inter ilia, allow Frontier to further expand and build out its

existing Internet network in West Virginia to deliver Internet access services at the rate of at least

6 Mbps download/1 Mbps upload,"



Wow. With padding the numbers for "upgrades," I'm sure that $180M in fed funds will pay for the vast majority of all this and Frontier will pocket most.