Frontier signed up a record 126,000 fiber subs in Q2 2025, handily beating the prior record of 103,000 added in Q1. Frontier's results, which included fiber builds to 334,000 more locations, arrive as its merger with Verizon inches toward an expected Q1 2026 close.
Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading
July 30, 2025
Frontier Communications' fiber subscriber and network-building engine remains in high gear as the telco treks toward its merger with Verizon.
Frontier added a record 126,000 fiber broadband subs in Q2 2025 (120,000 consumer subs against 6,000 business subs), improving on the prior record of 103,000 new fiber subs added in Q1 2025.
Those fiber results were good enough for Frontier to add 75,000 net residential broadband subscribers for the full quarter when accounting for a loss of 45,000 residential copper subs. Frontier lost 1,000 business/wholesale customers in the period (a gain of 6,000 fiber customers in the category versus a loss of 7,000 copper subs).
Frontier ended the quarter with 2.47 million residential fiber subs and 153,000 business and wholesale fiber customers. Frontier ended the quarter with total fiber penetration of 30.9%
Frontier's copper base dropped to 526,000 residential customers and 76,000 business/wholesale customers.
Picking up the fiber pace
Turning to Frontier's buildout, the company added 334,000 fiber passings in the quarter, raising its total to 8.5 million.
That pace was slightly better than the 329,000 analysts were expecting but below the 379,000 expected by New Street Research, analyst Vikash Harlalka explained in a research note issued Tuesday afternoon. "Frontier has deployed fiber to 655k locations this year so far. They need to deploy fiber to another 645k locations in 2H25 to get to their target of 1.3MM locations for the year," Harlalka added.
Frontier turned in consumer fiber average revenue per user of $65.54, up from $65.32 in the year-ago quarter. Frontier's total consumer broadband ARPU (fiber and copper) was $67.91, up from $63.41 a year earlier.
Total revenues rose 4% to $1.53 billion, alongside a net loss of $123 million.