FCC Approves $20 Billion Verizon-Frontier Communications Merger

The FCC has approved Verizon's $20 billion merger with Frontier Communications. "By approving this deal, the FCC ensures that Americans will benefit from a series of good and common-sense wins," the agency's chairman Brendan Carr said in a statement. "The transaction will unleash billions of dollars in new infrastructure builds in communities across the country-including rural America. This investment will accelerate the transition away from old, copper line networks to modern, high-speed ones. And it delivers for America's tower and telecom crews who do the hard, often . . .