CenturyTel of Colorado

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CenturyTel of Colorado, Inc.
Private (Subsidiary of CenturyLink)
Industry Telecommunications
Founded 1976
Headquarters Pagosa Springs, CO, United States
Products Local Telephone Service
Parent CenturyTel/CenturyLink
Website http://www.centurylink.com/

CenturyTel of Colorado, Inc. is a telephone operating company owned by CenturyLink that provides local telephone service in Colorado, including Pagosa Springs. [1] The company is separate from CenturyTel of Eagle and Qwest Corporation, the other telephone companies CenturyLink owns in Colorado.

CenturyLink, Inc. is an American telecommunications company, headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, that provides communications and data services to residential, business, governmental, and wholesale customers in 37 states. A member of the S&P 500 index and the Fortune 500, the company operates as a local exchange carrier and Internet access provider in U.S. markets and is the third-largest telecommunications company in the United States in terms of lines served, behind AT&T and Verizon and provides long distance service. CenturyLink also serves global enterprise customers across North America, Latin America, EMEA and Asia Pacific.

Colorado State of the United States of America

Colorado is a state of the Western United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. It is the 8th most extensive and 21st most populous U.S. state. The estimated population of Colorado was 5,695,564 on July 1, 2018, an increase of 13.25% since the 2010 United States Census.

Pagosa Springs, Colorado Town in State of Colorado, United States

Pagosa Springs is a municipality that is the county seat of, and the only incorporated municipality in, Archuleta County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1,727 at the 2010 census. Approximately 65 percent of the land in Archuleta County is either San Juan National Forest, Weminuche and South San Juan Wilderness areas, or Southern Ute Indian land.

The company was established in 1976 as the Universal Telephone Company of Colorado. The company is a reincorporation of the original company Universal Telephone owned serving Colorado, as the company forgot to file an annual report with the state and suffered an administrative dissolution.

The company was acquired by Century Telephone in 1990 and in 1996 changed its name to Century Telephone of Colorado, Inc. In 1998, the company changed its name to CenturyTel of Colorado, Inc. [2]

The company does business as CenturyLink, a name it adopted in 2009 following the acquisition of Embarq.

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References

  1. ↑ Local Calling Guide: CenturyTel of Colorado, Inc.
  2. ↑ Colorado Secretary of State


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