I think it happens a lot more often than you think, though often it's more directly presented as a particular market being sold to another ISP. However, it real

I think it happens a lot more often than you think, though often it's more directly presented as a particular market being sold to another ISP. However, it really is just an ISP closing up shop in that market and selling off its network/customers to someone else. Most recently Frontier Communications comes to mind.