Verizon has been steadily selling off different FiOS (and landline) regions to a company called Frontier Communications (see http://arstechnica.com/business/201

Verizon has been steadily selling off different FiOS (and landline) regions to a company called Frontier Communications (see http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/09/verizon-gets-approval-to-sell-part-of-fios-and-dsl-territory-to-frontier/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/09/verizon-gets-approva... for a recent story about one of these sales progressing).