Frontier Communications of the Southwest


Frontier Communications of the Southwest Inc. is a Frontier Communications operating company providing local telephone services to former Verizon California territory in Arizona, California, and Nevada. The company was created as a subsidiary of New Communications ILEC Holdings by Verizon in 2009 and sold on July 1, 2010 to Frontier.
The service region of Frontier Communications of the Southwest includes largely rural customers served by Verizon California as well as customers originally served by Contel through Contel of California. This company had been merged into GTE California in 1993.