As the dust settles around the first phase of the FCC s $9.2 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction, one US Senator has taken aim at a longtime telecom provider and its plans to deploy 1Gbit/s services in West Virginia. The stakes are simply too high to provide nearly $250 million [for services in West Virginia] to a company that does not have the capability to deliver on the commitments made to the FCC, wrote Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, a Republican from West Virginia, in a letter to the outgoing chairman of the FCC.
Capito argued that Frontier which won a total of around $371 million in RDOF money for rural broadband in eight states should not be trusted to use the cash to deploy gigabit services in her state.
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A new Frontier CEO was announced today as part of a post-bankruptcy plan for the company. Nick Jeffery will join the company, effective March 21, 2021.
The new Frontier CEO comes from Vodaphone UK, where he served as CEO. Vodaphone UK is one of Vodaphone’s largest operating units, providing wireless and wireline operations in the UK.
Jeffrey will succeed Bernie Han, as a part of Frontier’s restructuring process. Han was appointed CEO in December 2019. The company expects to emerge from bankruptcy in the first quarter of 2021.