Frontier rings in Verizon takeover by borking its network [telecom]

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Handover doesn't appear to be going particularly well in three US states

Frontier Communications says that problems related to its takeover of Verizon's internet service led to outages across the three most populous states in the country yesterday.

The company told The Register that errors related to the handover caused a failure early this morning in California, Texas and Florida. Making matters worse in Florida, a severed cable further complicated matters.