Are Customers On the Line With This Telecom Company?

Legendary fund manager Peter Lynch once said that you shouldn't invest in any idea you couldn't illustrate with a crayon.

Though I'm not much for crayons, I do love the pithiness of that line. We regularly preach the same idea at the Fool: Don't buy what you don't understand. And if you can't simply sketch out a company's business model -- how it actually makes money -- then maybe you shouldn't be investing in it.

Frontier Communications (NAS: FTR) has been making something of a comeback recently -- particularly after last week's earning report. Let's take a look at where Frontier is focusing its efforts, and where opportunity for expansion might still remain. (Note: I'm focusing on subscribers here, not earnings.)

Source: Frontier Communications' 2011 10-K.

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