Erin Kurtz on workforce
From Frontier Communications VP addresses rocky Verizon transition · · FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth
“We have 450 technicians in the market today, former Verizon employees that we've trained and are servicing our customers. We've also brought in 11 technicians from Indiana who will be with us through the end of the month, plus 65 contractors added since the day of the transaction.”
On , Erin Kurtz, Executive Vice President & Chief Communications Officer at FRONTIER COMMUNIC PARENT INC, spoke about workforce during Frontier Communications VP addresses rocky Verizon transition on FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth.
About Erin Kurtz
In September 2016, Erin Kurtz, then Frontier Communications' South Region Vice President of Marketing, addressed customer complaints following the company's transition from Verizon FiOS in Texas. Kurtz acknowledged the transition "has not gone as well as we had hoped" and apologized for customer frustrations, stating the company would proactively apply bill credits for service outages without requiring customers to take action. She described an action plan that included 11 technicians from Indiana, 65 additional contractors, and a focus on bringing call center operations back to US-based facilities. Kurtz stated that the company was "committed to earning their confidence and trust" and would address contract cancellation fees and other concerns on a case-by-case basis for customers wishing to cancel service. She attributed some challenges to the complexity of transferring "over 440 million data elements" and to weather conditions in Texas, while emphasizing that Frontier's priority was improving the customer experience.