Verizon has been steadily selling off different FiOS (and landline) regions to a company called Frontier Communications (see <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;verizon-gets-approval-to-sell-part-of-fios-and-dsl-territory-to-frontier&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;verizon-gets-approva...</a> for a recent story about one of these sales progressing).