Consumers’ Counsel gains consumer benefits through Frontier-Verizon merger agreement

COLUMBUS, Ohio – December 9, 2009 – Improving residential customers’ access to broadband and service quality are benefits contained in an agreement allowing the merger of Frontier Communications Corp. and Verizon Communications, Inc.

The agreement was filed late yesterday by the two companies, the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel (OCC) and the staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO). PUCO commissioners still must approve the agreement...