Verizon To Switch Many Rural Landlines to Frontier Communications

Crap!

I just received an email from Verizon. They say my new ISP on July 1 will become Frontier Communications. I don't know if this means my phone service as well. (I'll call in the morning to find out.)

Does anyone know the good and the bad with this? I mean, what's the response time if my Internet goes down? Will they filter and throttle my Internet differently than Verizon? Will my rates shoot up? These are things that worry me.