Frontier Says it Will Comply With West Virginia PSC After Auditor Rejection
Frontier Communications “will act in good faith to comply fully” with the West Virginia Public Service Commission, a spokesperson emailed us Wednesday after the agency a day earlier rejected the company’s choice of auditor for a copper probe (see 1906180066).…
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“Frontier engaged in an objective bid award process weighing all factors, however, the PSC felt pricing was overemphasized in the evaluation,” he said. “One key problem we must resolve together is that while Frontier only serves about ten percent of the 2.26 million telephone lines in West Virginia, Frontier has 100 percent of the obligation to provide universal telephone service to customers in the most rural, remote, and high-cost areas.”