Consumer advocates in several states, along with the Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and the staff of the Washington Utilities & Transportation Commission are asking the Federal Communications Commission to deny the deal between Verizon and Frontier.

Verizon is attempting to sell around 4.8 million land lines across 14 states, including West Virginia, to Frontier Communications.

"We recommend that the Commission reject the Frontier purchase of Verizon's telephone lines in Illinois because of serious concerns about Frontier's ability to manage these assets," Madigan said.

In Ohio, Janine Migden-Ostrander, the state Consumers' Counsel believes that this merger is not in the public's interest.

"We are concerned that Frontier will not be able to afford to maintain and improve residential customers' service," Midgen-Ostrander said.

The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission showed their opposition on Nov. 4 by stating that consumers would not receive benefits "that offset the financial harm and operational risks" of selling land lines to "a company without enough financial strength to make necessary improvements to local telephone facilities and widen deployment of broadband access."

The Consumer Advocate of the Public Service Commission in West Virginia will testify on Nov. 16.