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Verizon has offered $38.50 per share, representing a premium of 37.3% to the closing stock price of Frontier on Sept. 3, a day before reports of a potential acquisition first emerged.
Verizon, based in New York City, will pay $38.50 for each Frontier share. The deal is expected to close in about 18 months. It still needs approval from Frontier shareholders.
In particular, Verizon will acquire Frontier for $38.50 per share in cash, a 43.7% premium over Frontier’s 90-day volume-weighted average share price (VWAP) as of September 3, 2024.
Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. is an American telecommunications company. [6] Known as Citizens Utilities Company until 2000, [7] Citizens Communications Company until 2008, [8] and Frontier Communications Corporation until 2020, [6] as a communications provider [9] with a fiber-optic network [10] and cloud-based services, [11] Frontier offers broadband internet, digital television, and ...
The price tag for Frontier, based in Dallas, is sizeable given its 2.2 million fiber subscribers across 25 states. Verizon has approximately 7.4 million Fios connections in nine states and Washington, D.C. Frontier has 7.2 million fiber locations and has planst to build out an additional 2.8 million fiber locations by the end of 2026.
Verizon still operates phone service in non-Bell System areas in Pennsylvania under Verizon North, and in non-Bell System areas in Virginia and Knotts Island, North Carolina under Verizon South. In September 2024, Verizon announced a deal to acquire Frontier, which will return much of the former GTE network to Verizon ownership. [21]
The company was formed by Verizon in 2009 to facilitate the planned sale of some local subsidiaries to Frontier, which was completed on July 1, 2010. The company was set up to allow for a Reverse Morris Trust merger, allowing Verizon to spin off the company to Frontier tax-free. Its primary purpose was to transfer Frontier ILEC Holdings as well ...
Under the terms of the agreement, Verizon proposes to acquire Frontier for $38.50 per share in cash, representing a premium of 43.7% to Frontier’s 90-day volume-weighted average share price on ...