Frontier Communications continues to believe there are “numerous...

Frontier Communications continues to believe there are “numerous public interest benefits” to its proposed buy of AT&T’s wireline assets in Connecticut, Executive Vice President-External Affairs Kathleen Abernathy and Frontier lawyers told Daniel Alvarez, wireline aide to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, in a phone call Monday, Frontier said in an ex parte filing posted Thursday in docket 14-22. The deal, announced in December, will allow Frontier to “expand 10 Mbps broadband services to an additional 100,000 Connecticut homes that lack 10 Mbps service today,” Frontier said. The telco said it committed to making “middle-mile” improvements in the network that include construction of a reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer ultra-high specification fiber network. The improved network will increase network capacity in the state tenfold, which Frontier said means it can provide 10 gigabit service to customers in the state (http://bit.ly/1ruE2Ck).