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| Phone company lays off 8 workers |
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| Written by John Saiz / Patterson Irrigator | |
| Saturday, 02 February 2008 | |
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Frontier Communications, which became Patterson’s telecommunications services provider late last year, has gone through a round of local layoffs during the past two weeks. “Eight employees are part of our reduction in the workforce that will take effect March 22,” Frontier spokeswoman Stephanie Beasly said in a prepared statement this week. “We integrated a number of resources into our regional and national departments.” She said the company would not comment about how many people the previous phone company, Global Valley Networks, employed in Patterson before the takeover and how many people are now employed. The people who will be laid off handled duties that the company already had employees doing in other places, such as human resources, she said. She did not say what positions were eliminated in Patterson. Frontier is part of Citizens Communication, a publicly traded company based in Delaware that specializes in providing rural phone service and satellite television. The company purchased Global Valley Networks for $62 million in July. The buyout was completed in November, when Frontier started running the phone system. At that time, company officials said there were no plans to reduce staff in Patterson. Frontier serves about 2.5 million access lines and 464,000 high-speed Internet subscribers in 23 states, and it has more than 6,000 employees. It focuses on offering services found in major markets to suburban and rural areas. Patterson-based Evans Telephone Co., which started providing service in 1913, served Patterson before New Jersey-based Country Road Communications bought the company in 2001. Over the years, Evans expanded into Westley, Grayson and the greater Livingston area, and it gradually moved into other aspects of the telecommunications business. After the company’s headquarters moved to Turlock for several years, Country Road renamed the local telecommunications firm Global Valley Networks in 2004 and moved the company’s headquarters back to Patterson in late 2005.
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