Cellular Coliseum such as MMA fights, and Bloomington Thunder hockey games. Most notably are events they have sponsored at the U.S. Other than just investments in service upgrades Frontier has invested a lot in the form of donations, and sponsorships as mentioned before. Frontier’s General Manager Mike Nelson had this to say about the upgrades “We’re going to continue to be active and support our local market here, and provide the products and services that our customers demand,” There are over 22,000 Frontier customers in the Bloomington-Normal area alone so this investment was most welcome. This is over five times the bandwidth they could offer before at around 5 Mbps for residential and little more for businesses. This greatly increased bandwidth, not only for residential customers at 25 Mbps, but for business customer’s speeds of over 40 Mbps are now achievable. In May of 2013 Frontier Communications invested over 3 million dollars in upgrades to their broadband equipment including just over 5 miles of fiber optic lines installed in the Mclean County area. Their largest sponsorships include Frontier Field, located in Rochester NY, and the Rochester Red Wings that play at the stadium. Keep in mind these are just donations, and this number does not include sponsorships. Locally Frontier donated over $10,000 to things such as local scholarship funds, Educational Programs, Read Aloud Bloomington, and various other public services. Last year alone Frontier Communications donated over $250,000 nationwide. Cellular Coliseum located downtown Bloomington. They are largely involved with the Mclean County Fair, and sponsor a lot of events at the U.S. They sponsor several local sports teams, such as the Bloomington Thunder, and the Heartland Hawks (Cornbelters Stadium). Involvement in Local Communities/Investmentsįrontier is a very locally involved corporation. Their Chief Executive Officer and chairman is Maggie Wilderotter. Their corporate headquarters is located in Stamford, Connecticut. Frontier is a Fortune 1000, and S&P 500 Company. They currently employee over 15,000 people nationwide. At one point in time they were one of the largest employers in the Bloomington-Normal area, ranked second, right behind State Farm. They acquired 4.8 million landlines available to small business and residential customers from Verizon, and what once was GTE (General Telephone Electronics) in 2009. Formerly know as Citizens Utilities Company, and then Citizens Communications Company. They a re one of the largest telecom companies to provide DSL in the united states. National Headquarters in Stamford Connecticut Frontier Com munications Corporation is a Telecom company in the United States that provides telecommunication services mostly to smaller communities, and rural areas. The first office, their state headquarters, is located on 109 East Market Street. Mulberry in Normalįrontier has two offices located in the Bloomington-Normal area.
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