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Phone Company has $40 million Illinois Broadband Plan
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) -- An Ohio company that recently bought Verizon's landline operations in Illinois and 13 other states says it'll spend $40 million in Illinois next year to improve its customers access to broadband service.

Frontier Communications CEO Maggie Wilderotter said Tuesday in Bloomington that the company plans to provide 85 percent of its 571,000 Illinois customers with broadband service by 2013.

Wilderotter says about 62 percent of those customers now have broadband. Frontier had about 100,000 customers in the state before the deal with Verizon and more than 90 percent of them have broadband service.

Frontier has about 630 employees in the state. About 130 of them work at the company's state headquarters in Bloomington.

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