DA 10-430
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Washington DC  20554
March 12, 2010
Via First Class Mail and E-mail
Michael E. Glover
Verizon Communications Inc.
1320 North Courthouse Road
9th Floor
Arlington, VA 22201
John T. Nakahata
Wiltshire & Grannis LLP
1200 Eighteenth Street, NW
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20036
Re: Applications of Frontier Communications Corporation and Verizon Communications Inc. 
for Consent to Assign or Transfer Control of Licenses and Authorizations, 
WC Docket No. 09-95
Amended Response to Request for Second Protective Order Treatment of Highly 
Confidential Information.
Dear Messrs. Glover and Nakahata:
By letter dated March 3, 2010, you requested enhanced protection under the Protective Order, 
dated February 2, 2010,1 for certain information that you intend to submit in your responses to the 
Commission’s General Information Request, dated February 12, 2010.  Specifically, the information for 
which you request Highly Confidential Information status is as follows:
Category Eligible for Highly Confidential 
Information Treatment
Question Number in General Information 
Request
Information that discusses in detail the Submitting 
Party’s future plans to compete for a customer or 
specific groups or types of customers, including the
Submitting Party’s future procurement strategies, 
pricing strategies, product strategies, or advertising 
or marketing strategies.
24.a, 24.d, 25, 26.b(1), 26.b(4), 26.b(5), 26.b(7), 
26.b(8), and 26.b(10),
28.a, 28.b, 28.c
 
1 Applications filed by Frontier Communications Corporation and Verizon Communications Inc. for Assignment or 
Transfer of Control, WC Docket No. 09-95, Protective Order, DA 10-221 (Wireline Comp. Bur. Feb. 2, 2010) 
(“Second Protective Order”).
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Category Eligible for Highly Confidential 
Information Treatment
Question Number in General Information 
Request
Information that discloses the identity or 
characteristics of specific customers or of those 
with whom a company is negotiating.
24.a, 24.d
Information that provides revenues and numbers of 
customers broken down by customer type and 
relatively narrow geographic area (CMA, wire 
center, regional cluster or state).
26.b(1), 26.b(4), 26.b(5), 26.b(7), 26.b(8), and
26.b(10)
Information that provides granular information 
about a Submitting Party’s current or future costs, 
market share, marginal revenue, and firm-specific 
price elasticities.
6, 9.a.3, 9.b.6, 9.d and 9.e, 20.a, 20.b, 27, 28.a, 
28.b, 28.c
Information that provides detailed or disaggregated 
quantification of merger integration benefits or 
efficiencies.
9.a.3, 9.b.6, 9.d and 9.e, 20.a, 20.b, 27
Information that discusses in detail a Submitting 
Party’s costs systems and processes related to 
handling of customers and sensitive customer 
information
1.b, 1.c, 2.a, 2.a(1), 2.a(2), 2.b, 2.c, 3.a, 3.b, 3.c(1), 
3.d, 5, 6
Information that discusses in detail highly sensitive 
board strategy consultations
9.a.3, 9.b.6, 9.d, and 9.e
To the extent that the information or documents (or portions thereof) submitted to the 
Commission in response to the specific sections of the General Information Request set forth above both 
fall within the categories of information listed above and contain Highly Confidential Information, as 
defined in the Second Protective Order,2 then such information may be designated and submitted as 
“Highly Confidential” under the Second Protective Order.  This letter amends the list of categories above 
to include all of the categories for which you requested highly confidential treatment, adding two that 
were inadvertently omitted from our letter dated March 11, 2010.
Sincerely,
Sharon Gillett
Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau
 
2 “Highly Confidential Information” means information contained in Stamped Highly Confidential Documents or 
derived therefrom that is not otherwise available from public sources and that the Submitting Party has kept strictly 
confidential.  See Second Protective Order at para. 5.