In April, Frontier took over Verizon. And the fallout is still being addressed 6 weeks later. Today, Charter takes over BrightHouse Networks, and they promise a smoother transition, according to a Tampa Times article.

“When we acquire Bright House, we acquire the whole company,” Dudley said. “The plan ensures that the company that is running today is running tomorrow. There’s not a switch that gets flipped. We can leave them right in the Bright House infrastructure while we work behind the scenes.”

Let’s hope so!

I came across this web site tracking outages with Frontier: http://outage.report/frontier/map 

This is NOT an April Fool’s post.

Frontier Communications officially took over landline operations from Verizon today, April 1, 2016 in Florida, Texas and California. This includes Verizon’s FIOS service.

• Read more about the Frontier at their website: MeetFrontier.com.
• A good background article on the transfer of services to Frontier can be found in this Tampa Bay Times web post.

There have been reported outages all day today, including an unrelated fiber cut in Tampa, per this post from ArsTechnica.

All I can say is that if you are impacted, hang in there! Or try calling Frontier’s customer service at (800) 921-8101.

One of the most anticipated announcements from Microsoft was made today (Feb 4, 2014) when Satya Nadella was selected as the third CEO of Microsoft, succeeding Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Satya joined Microsoft 22 years ago.

Bill Gates will serve as Technology Advisor.

Read Steve Ballmer’s email to Microsoft employees on the announcement

Read Satya Nadella’s email to Microsoft employees on his appointment

Best wishes to all!