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July 2025

The tech deal behind the Department of Justice drama

A major deal between two tech companies is threatening to tear the Department of Justice’s antitrust division apart. Roger Alford and William Rinner—who had served in the department during President Donald Trump’s first term—were fired for insubordination after weeks of discord within the division about a corporate acquisition. The firing also calls into question the future of antitrust chief Gail Slater’s tech enforcement agenda. Curiously, the deal at the center of the drama was—if anything—a run-of-the-mill antitrust case.

Frontier Reports Second-Quarter 2025 Results

Frontier Communications reported its second-quarter 2025 results, citing a "breakout quarter" for the company. Frontier reported 334,000 added fiber passings to reach 8.5 million total locations passed with fiber, and 126,000 added fiber broadband customers, resulting in fiber broadband customer growth of 20 percent year-over-year. The company posted revenue of $1.54 billion, an increase of four percent year-over-year, as growth in fiber-based products was partly offset by declines in copper-based products.

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