Deal would shield local Verizon customers | The Columbian

Washington utility regulators have reached a deal with Frontier Communications that safeguards telephone rates and high-speed Internet access for Verizon customers here if the company’s bid for Verizon’s phone lines gets final state and federal approval.

Verizon in May proposed to sell 487,000 Washington phone lines, including its land line business in Camas and Washougal, to Frontier Communications. The deal, which doesn’t include Verizon’s wireless business, is part of an $8.6 billion bid by Frontier to acquire 4.8 million Verizon phone lines in 14 states...