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Home»News»FCC approves Verizon’s $20 billion merger after it commits to ‘ending’ DEI
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FCC approves Verizon’s $20 billion merger after it commits to ‘ending’ DEI

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Verizon expects to bring fiber to 1 million homes each year following the acquisition. The deal went through after Verizon “committed to ending DEI-related practices,” according to a statement by FCC Chair Brendan Carr.

The Intercept reports that in a May 15th letter to Carr, Verizon’s chief legal officer, Vandana Venkatesh, outlined what it’s walking away from. Because “Verizon recognizes that some DEI policies and practices could be associated with discrimination,” it will no longer have any HR roles or teams focused on DEI, remove references to the term from employee training materials, as well as goals for diversity in its supplies, representation of women and minorities in its workforce. In the letter, Venkatesh says that now Verizon’s public messaging is going to “remove references to ‘DEI’ or ‘diversity, equity and inclusion.’”

Through the merger, Verizon will also be able to claw back some of its fiber business after it sold parts of its wireline operations, including Fios fiber internet connections, to Frontier in 2015. Carr said the merger will allow fiber to come to more communities, including rural ones. BEAD, a Biden-era initiative, was supposed to pay fiber providers to bring high-speed internet to rural areas, but a report from The Washington Post suggests that the “money isn’t flowing.”

Update, May 16th: Added additional details from Verizon’s letter to the FCC and Decoder.

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