Frontier gets Texas Public Utility Commission approval for Verizon wireline asset purchase

Frontier has cleared another hurdle in its path to complete its acquisition of Verizon's wireline assets in California, Florida and Texas as the Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC) approved the transfer of Verizon's Southwest division's CLEC certificate to Frontier. Following the Federal Communications Commission's recent approval of the deal, the PUC approval is the only state regulatory approval that Frontier needed in Texas. Kathleen Abernathy, executive vice president of external affairs for Frontier, said that it anticipates "that the transaction will close at the end of the first quarter of 2016." Abernathy added that Frontier continues to "participate in the regulatory review process in California."