By Haley Velasco

Frontier Communications Corp. has terminated 250 mid-level management across the US, according to The Chicago Business Journal.

According to Frontier spokesman Bob Elek, the layoffs were for management positions and occurred as Frontier was “shifting the focus from the acquisition to synergies of scale.”

In March, Frontier acquitted Verizon Communications Inc. for $10.54bn to gain the wireline operations providing services to residential, commercial and wholesale customers in Florida, Texas and California.

“This is really the synergies of bringing those two organizations together,” the spokesperson said, referencing the deal with Verizon that was closed this spring.

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Source: The Drum