Southern Lancaster County residents are about to get a new phone and internet option from a company that has been told by state regulators to do better than Frontier Communications.
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has signed off on Verizon’s planned $20 billion deal to acquire Frontier after Verizon pledged to improve the company’s telephone and internet service.
As of 2020, Frontier served approximately 104,000 access lines in 79 exchanges across Pennsylvania, including many customers in rural areas. Frontier, which owns Commonwealth Telephone Co. LLC., is the telephone and internet base utility provider for most of southern Lancaster and portions of southern Chester counties…