#5: Frontier/Ziply Fiber
There are a lot of Frontier Communications partners in our audience, so the company’s divestiture in the Pacific Northwest was a hotbed of discussion in 2021 — even though it happened in 2020! Talk about a story with legs!
Our post from May 4, 2020, was still hot enough to crack our top stories for 2021. Frontier sold its assets in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana as part of the agreement that brought it out of bankruptcy. The private-equity firm buyers then established Ziply Fiber, which runs the old Frontier network in the Northwest.
We got plenty of reaction to what’s working and what’s not in this transition in our comments section.
Meantime, a lot of you are still reading our timeline of how the whole bankruptcy unfolded.