What They're Saying

The $10 million America's Best Communities program, launched in 2014 by Frontier Communications and the DISH Network, and cosponsored by CoBank and The Weather Channel, will be announcing the winners of its three year community revitalization contest. The winning town will receive $3 million. Second and third place finishers will get $2 million and $1 million, respectively. Here Maggie Wilderotter, now executive chairman of Frontier Communications, discusses the ABC program with Fortune and explains why her company made this extraordinary investment in rural and small town America.