OCC: Consumers should benefit from the Frontier-Verizon merger

COLUMBUS, Ohio – February 11, 2010 – More access to broadband and improved service quality are some of the benefits for Ohio residential customers as a result of the merger between Frontier Communications Corp. and Verizon Communications, Inc., according to Consumers’ Counsel, Janine Migden-Ostrander.

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) today approved an agreement filed Dec. 8, 2009 among the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel (OCC), the staff of the PUCO and the two companies...