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21 May

Federal Communications Commission approved sale of Verizon's landlines to Frontier Communications

Frontier Communications is the largest provider of telecommunications services in West Virginia. It is a national corporation with operations in 27 states and more than 14,000 employees, nearly 2,000 of whom are employed in West Virginia. The comp...

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