Frontier Communications and EchoStar Communications Corp. formed a strategic alliance to provide EchoStar’s Dish Network direct-to-home satellite televisions service to Frontier customers nationwide. Frontier will offer the service as part of its Connections brand bundled service, allowing customers to have a single bill that covers telephone, television and high-speed Internet service.

“We are very excited to partner with EchoStar…to offer Frontier Connections to our customers,” Maggie Wilderotter, president and CEO of Frontier parent Citizens Communications, said in a prepared statement. “This relationship strengthens our market position by putting in place the video component of a ‘triple play’ offering of telephone, television and high-speed Internet.”