Verizon flogs off 29 data centers, pockets $3.6bn

Verizon "concentrating" on its wireless and FiOS efforts?

<quote>For Verizon, the sale has been expected for some time, as it has sought to shed much of its wireline business services and infrastructure in order to focus on its more profitable wireless phone and FiOS consumer broadband services.</quote>

Really??????

If THAT is the case, they WHY did Verizon flog off its FiOS plant to Frontier?

http://www.macnn.com/articles/15/09/03/deal.awaiting.state.regulatory.board.approvals.to.proceed.130252/

Living in Flori-duh, I recall Frontier's handling of the rollout all too well:

http://stopthecap.com/2016/04/04/frontier-takeover-verizon-landlinedslfios-texas-florida-causes-big-outages/

and

http://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/frontier-lost-40k-potential-customers-during-botched-verizon-cutover-mccarthy-says

Unfortunately for the former Verizon customers, the April Fool's Joke was on them.