Frontier Florida LLC is a Frontier Communications operating company providing telephone service in

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to former

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and later

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regions.

History

Frontier Florida was founded as the Peninsular Telephone Company by William G. Brorein in March 1901. Brorein, a politician from Ohio, arrived in Tampa in 1901. Noticing the boom in the South, he was convinced by friends to get in the telephone business. Peninsular Telephone began with only 100 telephone lines. In 1957, the company was sold to General Telephone and Electronics (later

) and the name was changed to General Telephone Company of Florida. The company was later renamed GTE Florida, Incorporated. In 2000, GTE Florida was renamed "Verizon Florida", upon GTE's buyout by Bell Atlantic. On April 1, 2016, Verizon Florida became "Frontier Florida" after Frontier Communications purchased all of Verizon wireline assets in Florida. It serves the

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and Tampa Bay regions.

Sale to Frontier

On February 5, 2015, Verizon Communications announced a sale of its wired telecom operations in

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, and

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to Frontier Communications. Verizon Florida is included in the sale. The transaction closed on March 31, 2016. Verizon Florida transitioned to Frontier Communications on April 1, 2016.

Sources

Verizon Florida, Inc.

References

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