Frontier said it in their own bankruptcy statement. When it came time to pick a technology to champion, they chose DSL, a decision that did not stand the test o

Frontier said it in their own bankruptcy statement. When it came time to pick a technology to champion, they chose DSL, a decision that did not stand the test of time. You know what's more expensive than having to run infra to every home? Having to run it twice because your first choice didn't cut it. Infrastructure is an investment. You deploy infrastructure and then have customers pay for it over the next decade. Unfortunately, Frontier has the highest customer churn in the industry so the cash flow is really not great. Their challenge is to figure out how to execute that 2nd investment even though the first one never paid off. Over the past few months they completed their bankruptcy and shed a ton of debt, so they may actually be able to pull it off. Simultaneously, there are new challengers in the field like Google Fiber, ImOn, MetroNet, and municipal initiatives who are all making their first investment with fiber... and they all offer pretty good pricing.