Verizon’s Frontier Deal Gets FCC Approval After It Scraps DEI (3)

Verizon Communications Inc.‘s deal to acquire Frontier Communications was approved Friday by the FCC, just a day after the carrier wrote to the agency’s chairman saying it was abandoning its DEI policies.

Verizon told the Federal Communications Commission in a May 15 letter it was ending DEI responsibilities for employees, removing diversity references from employee training materials, and scrapping quantitative goals for supplier diversity. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr posted the letter first on X on Friday before the agency published the document on its website. Verizon needed the FCC’s approval to complete its merger with Frontier.

The approval ...