Verizon gets $15B in wireline sale, towers

Verizon Communications will make almost $US15 billion from selling part of its wireline business. Source: AAP

VERIZON Communications will make almost $US15 billion ($A19.22 billion) from selling part of its wireline business and leasing thousands of wireless towers.

THE largest US mobile phone carrier is selling its California, Florida and Texas wireline businesses, which serve phone, TV and internet customers, to Frontier Communications Corp for $US9.9 billion ($A12.69 billion) in cash. Frontier is also taking on $US600 million in debt.

Verizon says it wants to concentrate on the East Coast wireline business and will focus on expanding its FiOS broadband and high-speed internet business in that region.In 2010, Verizon sold Frontier four million phone lines in 14 states for $US5.3 billion. Frontier said the newest deal is scheduled to close in the first half of 2016.American Tower Corp will pay $US5.06 billion to lease 11,300 wireless towers and buy 165 towers. For the towers it is leasing, it will be able to operate them for an average term of 28 years, with an option to buy. The company expects to close the deal during the first half of 2015.Verizon Communications Inc said it plans to return some of the cash to shareholders with a $US5 billion stock buyback. Its shares rose one per cent to $US48.35 in aftermarket trading.Shares of Stamford, Connecticut-based Frontier Communications Corp stock climbed US70 cents, or 9.9 per cent, to $US8.40. Shares of Boston-Based American Tower Corp rose US12 cents to $US99.71.

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