My guess is Frontier is going to end up a private company when they come out of bankruptcy, just like their doppelganger Windstream did. I also expect there wil

My guess is Frontier is going to end up a private company when they come out of bankruptcy, just like their doppelganger Windstream did. I also expect there will end up being a merger between those two or one of them and Lumen (CenturyLink). These primarily rural ISPs all have the same difficulties in maintaining and upgrading service in their low density coverage areas. I'm not sure if merging is the answer for them to succeed, but the talk in this space has been very much in that direction. What remains to be seen is how much of an impact Starlink will have on their customers. In a way in might be helpful, allowing them to rid themselves of their most expensive to service customers. But if Starlink becomes popular in small towns rather than just rural areas, that could eat into the easier to service and profit from customer base of these companies.