You're both right. Frontier bought up established infrastructure. Where that purchase was DSL nearing end of life, Frontier neglects much of the network. West

You're both right. Frontier bought up established infrastructure. Where that purchase was DSL nearing end of life, Frontier neglects much of the network. West Virginia and the NorthEast US are degrading by the day. Verizon's FiOS was very well engineered and Frontier acquired it near the beginning of it's life. Even there Frontier spends less than Verizon did. They abandoned Verizon's IPv6 deployment, for example.