Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Frontier Communications Corp. (commonly "Frontier"; the operating parent was later reorganized as Frontier Communications Parent, Inc.) is a U.S. telecommunications provider founded in 1935 out of the Citizens Utilities lineage. It was long headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, with its principal executive office later moved to Dallas, Texas. Frontier traded on Nasdaq under the ticker FYBR from its April 2021 emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy until January 16, 2026. On January 20, 2026, Verizon Communications Inc. completed its approximately $20 billion acquisition of Frontier; Frontier is now a wholly owned Verizon subsidiary and its shares are delisted. Per its FY2024 Form 10-K, Frontier reported about $5.9 billion in annual revenue and roughly 13,000 employees.
Operations. Frontier is a wireline broadband and communications provider serving consumer and business customers, primarily across 25 states. It offers fiber and legacy copper broadband internet, voice, video and data services, plus wholesale and enterprise connectivity. As of December 31, 2024, it reported about 3.1 million broadband customers, with roughly 57% of revenue from fiber products and 42% from copper. Verizon described Frontier as the largest pure-play fiber internet provider in the U.S.; its footprint is being integrated into Verizon's Fios/5G convergence strategy through 2026.
Litigation posture. Frontier is an operating company, not an NPE. In the tracked data it appears only as a defendant (1 case, 0 as plaintiff). The sole tracked matter is Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Frontier Communications Corp., filed November 9, 2019 in the Eastern District of Texas — a venue historically favored by patent plaintiffs.
Context. Cedar Lane Technologies is a Canadian-based non-practicing entity (Nelson, British Columbia) that asserts acquired patents originating with Intellectual Ventures/AVInnov, mainly in image-processing and computer/communications technology. It has filed hundreds of suits, the large majority in the Eastern District of Texas and District of Delaware, with the overwhelming share resolved by settlement. The Frontier case predates Frontier's 2020 bankruptcy filing and 2021 reorganization. No other patent suits involving Frontier appear in the tracked case list.