Joseph P. Clayton, chief executive of the Frontier Corporation, wears his heart on his bumper.

Rochester Telephone (New York), a company founded in 1920 and changed its name to Frontier Corporation.

During that time, the company successfully sought state permission to sell a Rochester phone company, the Frontier Corporation, to help stave off its impending bankruptcy.

Rochester Telephone - which recently changed its name to the Frontier Corporation - still serves more than 95 percent of the city's 350,000 residential customers.

Part of the company's rapid growth came through acquisitions, including the Frontier Corporation.

Global Crossing has yet to complete its $10.8 billion acquisition of the Frontier Corporation, the No. 5 long-distance company, which was announced two months ago.

The Frontier Corporation, a large carrier that is more balanced between business and residential customers, has done so as well, though it has struggled recently.

In 1995, the company repositioned itself as a holding company and changed its name to Frontier Corporation.

Global Crossing said, in turn, that it would continue with its pending $11 billion acquisition of the Frontier Corporation, a long-distance carrier.

The Frontier Corporation, which already owns a piece of the Qwest network, also has more communications capacity than it needs.